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Poetry. “STUMBLE, GORGEOUS offers her most powerful and accomplished writing to date: the music sings metrically and in a range of sounds and voices; the syntax unfolds pleasure and difficulty in uneven doses and often surprises in its jangling turns”–Ira Sadoff.

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Stumble Gorgeous Review

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5.0 out of 5 stars A menagerie of things strange and beautiful
Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2005

Stumble, Gorgeous, McLain’s eagerly awaited second book of poetry, is a thin volume of the richest poems. These finely crafted poems are intimate and fresh with voices both strange and honest. In her poem “Heaven,” McLain revisits some of the same themes found in her memoir Like Family: Growing Up In Other People’s Houses, a book about her teenage years in foster care.

“In practical terms, we were children-mortal

And possessed. We folded easily into handbags and teacups”

In the section called “Bestiary,” the animals listed there are just a step away from normal. Poems have names like “Fiji Mermaid,” “Kissing Bug,” “Two-Headed Nightingale,” and “Platypus, Dreaming.” These strange beings speak in voices similar to those of the lost girls, wanting to find a familiar place, a home, but feeling the world doesn’t quite know what to do with them. From “Jackalope”:

“Something must have mothered me,

Rare as I am, shy of light as I am.”

Stumble, Gorgeous is a book of contradictions and juxtapositions-its world a menagerie of things strange and beautiful looking for a safe place to call home.

About Paula McLain Author Of Stumble Gorgeous pdf Book

Paula McLain Author Of Stumble Gorgeous pdf Book, She is the New York Times and internationally bestselling novels, The Paris Wife, Circling the Sun and Love and Ruin. Now she introduces When the Stars Go Dark (April 13, 2021), an atmospheric novel of intertwined destinies and heart-wrenching suspense. She received an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan in 1996, and is also the author of two collections of poetry, the memoir Like Family: Growing Up in Other People’s Houses, and the debut novel, A Ticket to Ride. Her work has has appeared in The New York Times, Real Simple, Town & Country, The Guardian, Huffington Post, Good Housekeeping, and elsewhere. She lives with her family in Cleveland, Ohio.