Famous

She became famous, finally, to herself, Kathleen Flenniken writes. This is the kind of fame at the heart of most lives and at the center of Flennikens first collection, the winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Here a little voice sings / from the back of the auditorium / of my throat. Arent all of us / waiting to be discovered? The poets answer is sometimes grave, sometimes comic, but always tuned to the incidental music of daily life.