Storage Issues

Storage Issues pictures an individual wandering through the remains of communal life. These personal lyric and narrative poems search for meaning in the background, events, and concerns of one Mennonite woman’s existence. The poems invoke archetypal help and seek elemental order, but they also accept the changing world.

“Pop psychologists call it baggage—the memories, the feelings, both happy and sad, that stick with us, and haunt us, but author Suzanne Miller rightly observes that really, it’s storage issues—how much room do you have in a life for happiness, for joy, for love and for the pain that sometimes comes with great love and loss?” —Darcy A. Zabel, Professor of English, Friends University