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A review by mary_soon_lee
Moon Facts by Bob Schofield
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"--
Looking to read
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.