Jane Satterfield's Books
Jun.30.2009
A thoughtful and emotionally charged memoir of pilgrimage and transformation, Daughters of Empire weighs the powerful individual drama of pregnancy and motherhood against a larger backdrop of culture shock and marital tension. A dual British-American national on her first return trip to England in over a decade, Jane Satterfield faced a woman’s fundamental decision: to become...
Apr.01.2000
Shepherdess with an Automatic is intense and perceptive, full of lyrical, descriptively vivid poems that range across cities and centuries. From bleak British moors to the crowded London underground, from steamy American summers in rural settings to the chaos of urban club scenes, these poems capture history's vibrant, unsettling presence in contemporary times.
From the foreword:
"Negotiating distances, intimate or otherwise, Satterfield's poems contain all the other trappings of travel: the snapshots, film, postcards, phone messages . . . these ways of keeping the traveling experience long after the experience has passed, these ways of passing the balm of pilgrimage on to others . . . "
--Michelle Mitchell-Foust
About Jane
Jane Satterfield, the recipient of a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, is the author of two poetry collections: Assignation at Vanishing Point (Elixir, 2003) and Shepherdess with an Automatic (WWPH, 2000). Her poetry has been...
Connections
Causes Jane Satterfield Supports
Associated Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)
Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)
Jane’s Favorite Books
Jane Eyre, The English Patient, Mrs. Dalloway, Wuthering Heights, The Widening Spell of the Leaves