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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Trade ReviewAmy Fleury's Beautiful Trouble sips 'thimbles of sunshire,' feeds 'honey-rimmed on the mouths of men,' feels 'the itch of fire,' and wants 'a sweet potato baby.' These are troubles beautiful as plain days distilled to the wonder seed. -Kim Stafford, author of The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer's Craft; ""The minute I finished Beautiful Trouble, I wished I had copies to give to all my friends: To the poets, of course, who will admire it for its art, but also to those who don't read poetry. Fleury proves that a book of poems need not be baffling or condescending or self-absorbed. With ordinary words placed with perfect precision, this book throws open dozens of windows onto fresh new ways of seeing, and loving, the world."" -Ted Kooser, author of Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemlan Alps
