Another City, Another Rec, More Awesomeness

I usually hate buying new books, but while here in Montreal I ended up in a bookstore, and found myself in the poetry section, browsing through some recommendations Celeste had made. I picked up Dorianne Laux's collection Facts About the Moon, and after I read through half of the first poem in there, "The Life of Trees," I knew I had to buy it. Generally I'm totally against impulse buys, but I think this one was worth it. Really accessible poems with strong narrators and actually funny moments, not just, oh, that's clever, hmm, let me sip my brandy to toast to your intellectual wordplay, but chuckle-in-bed and if you happen to be drinking chocolate milk while reading there, perhaps unexpected laundry the next day. Not that it's not sophisticated and refined and all that shit that good poetry has to be. Right. Oh well, not that I would know since I never read poetry. So you can take everything I just said with that proverbial smallest grain of salt thing.