Rating: 4 out of 5

I’m still always taken aback by Dorianne Laux’s poetry. It has the ability to take me on a journey, to take me somewhere unexpected. I love that it’s straightforward. Or at least that I can read it that way. I don’t have to approach it like a cryptic crossword analysing every word and wondering what else it could mean.

In this volume, I put marks against the following poems:
- the life of trees
- my brother’s grave
- moon in the window
- facts about the moon
- her first
- afterlife
- cello
- the birthday party

Highlighted lines:

From ‘The life of trees’

I want to sleep and dream the life of trees

From ‘A walk in the park’

This walk in the park is no walk in the park

Originally posted to my Goodreads account