Bibliograph

Ordinary skin, essays from Willow Springs, Amy Hale Auker

Type

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Ordinary skin, essays from Willow Springs, Amy Hale Auker

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Ordinary skin

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Amy Hale Auker

Series statement

Voice in the American West

Sub title

essays from Willow Springs

Summary

Amy Hale Auker's first book of essays, Rightful Place, was the story of a woman finding beauty in her place, the Llano Estacado. Her new collection of creative non-fiction, Ordinary Skin, explores her mid-life transition with prose poems and essays that illustrate a new terrain as well as new ways of being in the world. Touching on faith and body image and belonging, these essays explore our role in deciding what is favorable or unfavorable, as well as where we someday want to dwell, and who came before us. In that touching, they feel their way with observations about current affairs, drought, mystery, and the hard decisions that face us all as we continue to move toward more questions with fewer answers. This exploration is informed and softened by hummingbirds, Gila monsters, bats, foxes, bears, wildflowers, and hidden seep springs where life goes on whether we are there to see it or not. It is about work in a wild and wilderness environment. In the end, even as life changes drastically around us, we are better off for knowing that the ugly mudbug turns into a jewel-toned dragonfly

Target audience

adult

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