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mary_soon_lee's review
3.0
Fact 1. "Moon Facts" contains 23 poems presented as numbered facts about the Moon.
Fact 2. When I say poems, I include prose poems. What little punctuation there is has been shaken out of the regular poems and used in the prose poems.
Fact 3. I like the conceit of the project, and I liked most of the poems. There were, however, half a dozen poems that I didn't care for.
Fact 4. The poems contain strange, sweet, and humorous elements. I liked the mentions of bees. I liked the two-line stanza in "Fact #011"--
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an entirely unfinished sky
Fact 5. "Moon Facts" has been nominated for the 2016 Elgin Award for best speculative poetry chapbook.
Fact 2. When I say poems, I include prose poems. What little punctuation there is has been shaken out of the regular poems and used in the prose poems.
Fact 3. I like the conceit of the project, and I liked most of the poems. There were, however, half a dozen poems that I didn't care for.
Fact 4. The poems contain strange, sweet, and humorous elements. I liked the mentions of bees. I liked the two-line stanza in "Fact #011"--
Looking to read
an entirely unfinished sky
Fact 5. "Moon Facts" has been nominated for the 2016 Elgin Award for best speculative poetry chapbook.
deirdrekoala's review
5.0
This book contains facts about THE MOON, poetry, illustrations, and a narrative about you and THE MOON and straw boys and bears. Most importantly, it contains a lot of strange and eerie feelings that are sort of about THE MOON and sort of about us. Reading MOON FACTS simultaneously feels like looking at THE MOON while having uncomfortably human feelings and looking at a beautiful human while having uncomfortably cosmic feelings. My only wish for this book would be that it contained 999 facts about THE MOON, instead of skipping hundreds of facts that I would like to know. Still, I’m trying to remember the poet’s warning and assurance: “Bitch, this is THE MOON / There are no fucking rules.”
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