Tasha Cotter

Poetry and story all in one book. This series of poems, only separated and titled by the dates spaced throughout a year, was surprising for me. First , that each poem didn’t follow any rules of poetry I had learned. I’ve seen similar work in “The New Yorker” and other magazines. Now a whole book that I followed, understood, and it made me think has taught me my education in poetry has been sorely limited. Second, that the poems as a whole were a coherent story really surprised and moved me. I feel this is a book I’ll come back to for randomly looking at individual poems while remembering the overall story. My only negative is I felt too many selections were rewordings of the same idea. The poems, then, are a bit repetitious at times but that very fact is a point to be made, too. I read a free LibraryThing Early Reviewers edition; if it hadn’t been free, I wouldn’t have read it but now I would pay for it.… (mehr)

The Aqua Book is a diary of Poems. I recommend it as an easy read, a page at a time if you want. I did tear up from time to time. I received this book in exchange for my honest opinion and give it 4 our of 5 stars. Its soothing and personal. Inspires me to write a diary like it for my own peace of mind. This really is just a nice book. Being allowed into someones private thoughts is rare. I don't know how else to put it into words but I really appreciate this book the way it is. It is charming and disarming.… (mehr)