Bar Book! This was awesome. It's a bit like Ilya Kaminsky's Dancing in Odessa in that it skips through lots of different genres/formats. There are footnotes, free verse poems, recipes, snarky prose sections, etc. It makes me wish I could drink each cocktail she mentions and compare it to the characters she makes them. One negative: the book is marketed (>_<) as having the themes of love, divorce, relationships, recovery, and motherhood, BUT the subject that most stood out was divorce. There is in fact very little to do with recovery. I will concede that it has love and relationships but I bet it's really hard to write a book of poems without having either. Quick read that I wished I owned to the point that if it stays in my mind, I will buy a copy of my own.
27 June 2010
Bar Book
Bar Book! This was awesome. It's a bit like Ilya Kaminsky's Dancing in Odessa in that it skips through lots of different genres/formats. There are footnotes, free verse poems, recipes, snarky prose sections, etc. It makes me wish I could drink each cocktail she mentions and compare it to the characters she makes them. One negative: the book is marketed (>_<) as having the themes of love, divorce, relationships, recovery, and motherhood, BUT the subject that most stood out was divorce. There is in fact very little to do with recovery. I will concede that it has love and relationships but I bet it's really hard to write a book of poems without having either. Quick read that I wished I owned to the point that if it stays in my mind, I will buy a copy of my own.
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