How to account for beauty in these our difficult, cynical times, be it seductive, elevating, humbling, dangerous, or, too often nowadays, besmirched and downtrodden? The lyrical stories and speculations of Anthony DiMatteo's BEAUTIFUL PROBLEMS - and who doesn't have these? - offer insights into experiences of beauty that we share with animals and in common. They move us now to stand up or sit down, shut up or shout out in a hunt and haunt of it. "BEAUTIFUL PROBLEMS include those of suffering, death, bittersweet memory, surviving divorce, physical danger, and many others that entice and disturb equally. Reading, we find ourselves in various settings: classroom, county fair, hospital, prison, national parks. Into DiMatteo's narratives come a horse, a heron, a coyote, dogs, a fox, and a mountain lion he sees while hiking: 'a gift as vision given, pure fear, pure joy.' From page to page, we experience the writer's gift for aphorism ('Recall can taste sweeter than the thing itself') and...

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