Fruit of the Temporary Amazon Purchasing Hold

In terms of print, decided to limit myself to buying in bookstores, buying from publishers, and borrowing from the library, for now.

I can get quite a bit of good stuff via inter-library loan. Then, browsing for poetry in the library is not ideal, but it can bear fruit. Found and enjoyed Zach Savich's Annulments. The format and form are nice; the book's small and squarish and the poetry is sparse on the page (I'm thinking of a dwarf conifer garden, with perfect, sometimes funny, sometimes gorgeous little trees and plenty of open space for rocks or mulch in between), such as, set apart: "Car going faster or posts grown closer together. Men pronouncing the names of fish."

I particularly liked "Real Time," the end:  

Reading together is mostly looking up 

The world a more literal place in the morning 

Standing not with a loaf but the flour

Zach Savich, Annulments, UP of Colorado, 2010.