Archive for 20 April 2012
“I can’t help but sense a clear mind behind the words working to deliver a clear message.”
The always thoughtful David Allan Barker of Nouspique has posted a review of Peg Duthie‘s Measured Extravagance which says, in part:
A life lived within the measure of its confines is no life at all, but a life lived with extravagance becomes more than the sum of its years. So we have, in “Extravagance”, another mother, like the clipped mother we already met, but she surprises us:
And yet, on the Fourth of July,
the flashiest, wickedest rockets
arrive in a wrinkled paper bag:
as they soar, whistle, and burn,
flinging sparks across the night,
Mrs. Dianna stands in the yard,
her face alight. Such a feast.Just as fresh insight can burst from the traditional forms of poetry, so life can burst its limits with moments of wonder and delight that suspend us in time.
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20 April 2012
Couplets – April 20
I missed these entries from yesterday’s Couplets roundup:
- Blueshifting by Heather Kamins (a review) (at Renee Emerson’s This Quiet Hour)
- Couplets: Interview with Wendy Brown-Baez (at Francis Scudellari’s Caught In The Stream)
Here are today’s entries:
- Revision in Science Fiction Poetry (Elizabeth Barrette at Peg Duthie’s zirconium)
- Couplets Tour: Carol Berg hosts Anne Higgins (at Carol Berg’s Ophelia Unraveling)
- Inquiring Minds and Other Clichés — Darla C. R. d’Aubigné (at Christine Klocek-Lim’s November Sky Poetry).
- Marie Marshall (at Angie Werren’s feathers: micropoetry (and tinyprose))
20 April 2012