03071nam 2200601 a 450 991081260360332120230617014913.00-8093-8860-X1-299-05062-X(CKB)2550000000996681(EBL)1354398(OCoLC)856870331(SSID)ssj0000821602(PQKBManifestationID)11452869(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000821602(PQKBWorkID)10888358(PQKB)10161520(MiAaPQ)EBC1354398(OCoLC)830844373(MdBmJHUP)muse25881(Au-PeEL)EBL1354398(CaPaEBR)ebr10654954(CaONFJC)MIL436312(EXLCZ)99255000000099668120040220d2004 uy pengur|n|---|||||txtccrBeautiful trouble[electronic resource] /Amy FleuryCarbondale Crab Orchard Review Southern Illinois University Pressc20041 online resource (63 p.)Crab Orchard series in poetry : first book awardDescription based upon print version of record.0-8093-2598-5 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; RhythmAt 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 CoverIn 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 charactersCrab Orchard award series in poetry.SufferingPoetryHomePoetrySufferingHome811/.6Fleury Amy1970-1595344MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812603603321Beautiful trouble3953377UNINA