The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems

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.