A review by robertlashley
Facts about the Moon: Poems by Dorianne Laux

5.0

The problem with poetry books about nature is that too often the author tends to superimpose a fixed set of ideas to the setting; along with fixed answers that they want the setting to give them. In Facts about the Moon, Dorianne Laux doesn’t escape this tendency as much as make you believe her ideas as much as you believe your own. In the background of the oregon woods, Laux find new ways to fuse her complex themes of class, sex, gender, love, and humanity into great poetry. In her best work she uses our common language in uncommon means; while fusing a lyrical style that dances around the rigid strictures of modern prose poetry and contempoary free verse. A first rate book