Wintering Over - Hardcoverby Susannah Lee (Author) The poems in Wintering Over to take shelter through, and within, the dark of the year wrestle with a sacred yearning to embrace the light in darkness. Poems in the book's first half dwell with the interior lives of contemplatives the Arctic north. Others move from vastness to enclosure a night swim in polar waters, an anchoress preparing for a special visitor, or a New England field teeming with quiet dramas of life and death.