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"In ""Difficult Beauty"", Lauren Crux offers us wise, elegant, observant poems that delineate and celebrate everyday epiphanies, and she's paired her poems with photographs that neither illustrate nor make any suggestion as to how the poems should be read: they are simply companions on the journey of this moving collection. ""Difficult Beauty"" is a rare gem, the perfect amalgam of the visual and the verbal, a sublime pairing that satisfies the eye, the ear, and the heart. -Gary Young, author of ""Even So: New and Selected Poems"" and ""That's What I Thought"""

"""The rambles balance intimacy with openness, artistry with colloquial thought and speech. Crux's gaze is simultaneous vast and minute (which I am coming, I think, to understand, is the way of the soul of Lauren Crux). Just when we think we've come on a silly throw away line, or a cliché, or a normal point of view, she turns the phrase and raise the stakes on us. But she's not showing off. She's just talking to us."" -Camille Dungy"

The rambles balance intimacy with openness, artistry with colloquial thought and speech. Crux's gaze is simultaneous vast and minute (which I am coming, I think, to understand, is the way of the soul of Lauren Crux). Just when we think we've come on a silly throw away line, or a cliche, or a normal point of view, she turns the phrase and raise the stakes on us. But she's not showing off. She's just talking to us. -Camille Dungy

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Lauren Crux is an artist whose work oscillates between performance, photography and writing. She obtained an MFA in interdisciplinary studio arts from UC Irvine. Her honors include the James Irvine Foundation Honorary Fellowship, a major project grant from the Arts Research Institute of UCSC, as well as fellowships at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland. In 2016 she was awarded the LGBTQ Lifetime Achievement Award of Santa Cruz County, California. She is a psychotherapist and lives in Santa Cruz, California.

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