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The More Extravagant Feast: Poems  by  Leah Naomi Green My rating:  4 of 5 stars With eloquent simplicity and an eye for the telling detail, Leah Naomi Green writes poetry that encompasses nature and the very personal into a lyric tapestry. The growth of her daughters in her body and then–after they are born–outside that body. “This is the way we came to remember the world.” The likening of a wood stove being opened on the first cold day of Autumn and finding they had prepared wood to burn with the opening of her body in a C-section to the separate life of her daughter. “i believed at least one of us must know the way” The father who kills and dresses a deer for them to eat as a sacramental act. “It is all I see, a thing, alive, slowdown becoming my body.” “When we eat, what we eat is the body of the world” The death of her father and faith in life as a candle of flickering light embodied in wax “whose job is not to spark, or hold a flame, but to keep th...