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Beyond Expectations inspires and heartens when a child, who once fretted bedtime monsters, strikes out to find many great and wonderous things; offers a breath-holding moment as spring fledglings teeter on the edge of their first precarious flight; affirms an aging community's wry world-wisdom, underscoring the unaltering lines of human nature's playbook. Even when expectations become reality-dimmed, unforeseen lessons and unimagined gratitude, often tinged with humor, frequently emerge. This collection was inspired by an observant and sage mother of a past generation who resolutely overcame her own society's presumptions, proving that life always holds promises well beyond our expectations.

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Observant, curious, ever-attentive to detail, Cada McCoy writes with sparkling precision. Her Beyond Expectations broaches the essential choices we all must make in the time we are given. -Arthur McMaster, author of The Whole Picture Show Here is a long-needed fresh voice of formalism perfectly rendered. Each syllable is expertly chosen, as is its rhyming pair. Somehow working within the scaffolding of poetic forms-and that tight economy of language that carries into the free verse pieces in Beyond Expectations as well-McCoy's creations find the seemingly ironic freedom of writing with attention to structure and the deliberate intention to delight. These poems show us truths about our world, crafted into what Frost called ""the best words in the best order."" Brava to this innovative new voice in verse. -Ashley Crout, four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, recipient of awards from The Academy of American Poets and The Poetry Foundation and a poetry grant from The Astraea Foundation, with work appearing in publications including Michigan Quarterly Review, New Orleans Review, Atticus Review and Dodging the Rain Cada McCoy's poetry is a delicious indulgence best spooned, sipped and slurped like simmering stew. These are get-under-the-skin, stick-to-the-bone kind of poems! The pith, the pitch, the perspective. Perfection! -Susan Kammeraad-Campbell, editor, teacher and award-winning author

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Always buoyed and kept afloat by words during careers as librarian, publications editor, independent bookstore owner, these days Cada McCoy can be found in Upstate South Carolina casting her lines into poetry's tidal streams. What finds the hook is always beyond her most delighted expectations.

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