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20 April 2012

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.

ISBN 978-1-937794-14-9 (epub) is available for iPad, Nook, etc. at Barnes & Noble, Goodreads and kobo. ISBN 978-1-937794-12-5 (mobi) is available for Kindle on Amazon (US, UK, DE, FR, IT, ES). ISBN 978-1-937794-13-2 (pdf) is available at Smashwords.

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