Beautiful Trouble

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 fully and paints their souls and sensations evenly in language both rare and beautiful. She is a poet in love with sound and its power to summon majesty from quotidian scenes. Her poems are brief and striking, depending on exquisite word choice and balance to achieve a simple order on the page.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 08/30/2004
ISBN: 9780809325986
Pages: 50
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.06w x 0.23d

Review Citations: Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2005 pg. 73 - Recommended/Special Interest