Beautiful trouble [electronic resource] / Amy Fleury.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fleury, Amy, 1970-

Series:

Crab Orchard award series in poetry.

Crab Orchard series in poetry : first book award

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suffering--Poetry.

Suffering.

Home--Poetry.

Home.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (63 p.)

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; One; Always Girl; Consolation; Penance: Reading to a Shut-In; Papier-Mâché Jupiter; Fifth Grade; Pink; The Thirsting Hours; To Spit and Hone; Covenant; At Twelve; Consider the Thunder; Two; 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; Three; Backroad; Commotions of the Flesh; Elegy for the Living; Aubade; The Fugitive Eve; Rhythm

At Cather's GraveBurning Back; At Twenty-Eight; Epithalamion for a Maiden Aunt; Jazz Rhapsody; The Wound You Need; What Endures; The Progress of Night; Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8093-8860-X

1-299-05062-X

OCLC:

856870331