Things Happen Poems of Survival EMMA LOU THAYNE Hardback. 80 Pages. / 0-941214-88-5 / $18.95 Paperback. 80 Pages. / 1-56085-047-7 / $10.95 Sometimes things happen—comic, tragic, commonplace, extraordinary, things without explanations. Things Happen charts Emma Lou Thayne's struggle to make sense of a chaotic and confounding world, and she does so in a way that is perceptive, bold, and tender, but never maudlin. Emma Lou Thayne is the recipient of a Distinguished Alumna Award from the University of Utah and the David O. McKay Humanities Award from Brigham Young University. Her books include As For Me and My House; The Family Bond; Never Past the Gate; Once in Israel; Spaces in the Sage; Until Another Day for Butterflies; With Love, Mother; and A Woman's Place. Her poetry has appeared in Dialogue, the Ensign, and Exponent II, and she is a contributor to Lowell L. Bennion and The Owl on the Aerial. She has been a board member for the Deseret News, Utah Arts Council, the Utah Endowment for the Humanities, and the Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association. She and her husband live in Salt Lake City.

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