Beautiful Trouble

Amy 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