Ordinary Skin: Essays from Willow Springs (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781682830062)

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 nonfiction, Ordinary Skin, explores her midlife 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 some day 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 mud bug turns into a jewel-toned dragonfly.

Author: Amy Hale Auker
ISBN-10: 1682830063
ISBN-13: 9781682830062
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/10/2017
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.30h x 6.40w x 0.80d