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H is for Harry" is a second edition of Susan Sink's second volume of poetry, originally published in 2016. These poems continue her exploration of life in words: the lives of women and girls, American identity and landscape, and lived spirituality in the world. What truths can language tell? These poems also form a narrative from divorce to remarriage and renewal in a farm life full of abundance.

Near Grand Forks, North Dakota, a family is struggling. Middle-aged Gary has a job delivering burial vaults and doing graveside set-ups in a large rural territory. He takes his aging dad with him. But there's something wrong with his daughter CeCe's baby. She isn't growing. Her head's too small. CeCe's on her own with five-year-old Tony and baby Lily while her husband Corey works in the Bakken oil fields, trying to pay off family debts. Fai...

Habits" is a collection of 100-word stories about the life of Roman Catholic nuns in the twentieth century. These vignettes are based on material from oral histories and other stories. They chart changes to religious life and the experiences of American Benedictine women in the Midwest from the 1920s-1990s, with special focus on community life, prayer and work.

When officer Chris Miller is shot behind Arnold's Bar in a small Minnesota town, his partner Paul Thielen panics. On impulse, he reverses his squad out of the dark alley. In that moment, Chris becomes a hero and Paul a coward. OFFICER DOWN, a novel by writer and poet Susan Sink, tells the story of small town policing in a time of increasing violence in America with sensitivity and grace. Paul Thielen tells his story as he struggles to make sen...

From the time that pages of The Saint Johns Bible began touring in major exhibitions nearly a decade ago, people have been moved, captivated, and inspired by this stunning work of modern sacred art. But they often have questions about the illuminations that are scattered throughout the Bible, especially as they first become familiar with it. Why was a certain Scripture passage chosen for illumination rather than another? What materials and sou...

A Reader's Guide to Historical Books, Letters and Revelation

H Is for Harry, the third book of poetry from Susan Sink, is a tightly woven collection of poems on a variety of subjects, including divorce and remarriage, the role of language and literature in life, and the ways in which language contributes to identity. The title poem explores the author's first encounter with language, namely the letter "h, " which comes to mean things in the real world, like Helen Keller's first apprehension of the word ...

In the first of a planned two-volume set, this edition brings text and illumination together for reflection. This guide further opens up the significance of elements in the illuminations, and points out recurring visual motifs that connect the stories within and across the volumes.

These poems have a visual richness, narrative depth and lyric beauty that invites the reader into their world. That world is populated by women in the grips of religious fanaticism, drunkards lovers and mothers and sisters, and at the center of it a young woman trying to find the words to tell the tales of a life, and make sense of the way we all struggle to cope with life's burdens and recognize life's beauty. These poems tell the story of th...