Ordinary Skin - Essays from Willow Springs

Amy Hale Auker's first book of essays, Rightful Place, was the story of awoman 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.

About the author

Amy Hale Auker is the author of Rightful Place, the 2012 WILLA winner for creative nonfiction and Foreword Reviews Book of the Year for essays. She is also the author of Winter of Beauty and The Story Is the Thing. Auker cowboys for Spider Ranch in Yavapai County, Arizona, and performs poetry, speaking to groups all over the country.

Summary

Amy Hale Auker's first book of essays, Rightful Place, was the story of awoman 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.

Product details

• Authors: Amy Hale Auker, Amy Hale Auker
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781682830062
• ISBN: 978-1-68283-006-2
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Voice in the American West; Voice in the American West; Voices in the American West
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works