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Author Fleury, Amy, 1970-

Title Beautiful trouble / Amy Fleury
Published Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 50 pages)
Series Crab Orchard series in poetry
Crab Orchard award series in poetry.
Contents Always girl -- Consolation -- Penance: reading to a shut-in -- Papier-mache Jupiter -- Fifth grade -- Pink -- The thirsting hours -- To spit and hone -- Covenant -- At twelve -- Consider the thunder -- Wherever the dancing is done -- Things familiar -- A prayer for intercession -- Aurelia waiting -- Nemaha County nocturne -- Homestead -- Mercy at home -- Almanac -- Remedy -- Sonnet for dissonance -- Threshing -- About Rose Ida -- Supplications to the Blessed Mother -- Backroad -- Commotions of the flesh -- Elegy for the living -- Aubade -- The fugitive Eve -- Rhythm -- At Cather's grave -- Burning back -- At twenty-eight -- Epithalamion for a maiden aunt -- Jazz rhapsody -- The wound you need -- What endures -- The progress of night
Summary In her first collection of poems, Kansas native Amy Fleury captures images of dragging clotheslines, baked lawns, and sweet potato babies, inserting them with an earnest dignity into her stories of midwestern life. Beautiful Trouble explores the subtleties of landscape, place, families, girlhood, womanhood, and everyday existence on the prairie. Fleury writes of the Midwest with authenticity, speaks of romance with delicate allure, and recalls the heartbreak of childhood without self-pity. In meditations on resilience and life's contradictions, Fleury engages her characters
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Subject Suffering -- Poetry
Home -- Poetry
POETRY -- American -- General.
Home
Suffering
Genre/Form American poetry
Poetry
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780809388608
080938860X
129905062X
9781299050624