The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems
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This book includes work from the author's first five books--Field Guide, Praise, Human Wishes, Sun Under Wood, and Time and Materials--as well as a substantial gathering of new poems, including a suite of elegies, a series of poems in the form of notebook musings on the nature of storytelling, a suite of summer lyrics, and two experiments in pure narrative that meditate on personal relations in a violent world and read like small, luminous novellas.--From publisher description.
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This is a sprawling and large collection of poems that explores nature, divorce, travel, translation, poetry, sex, family, philosophy, and wow everything I guess? I like the varied structure and lengths of poems, and I quite enjoyed the prose poetry as it challenges what a poem is, really. The expansiveness of the collection and the raw honesty and visceral verse made me feel like I was actually experiencing the world through the poet's eyes... which admittedly got a little tiring, as the poet is an older white male, but interesting nonetheless. While there were very few poems that I loved in their entirety, there were so many clever and funny and beautiful lines that kept me smirking and sighing the whole way.