fancy that of london by leah angstman ($5)

fancy that of london takes a quick turn from award-winning author leah angstman's earlier chapbook, this one detailing the sights and sounds of travels to London and Paris in June 1999, often whimsical, light-hearted, and adoring in her fanfare of love for a foreign city. The poems deal with the confusion and bluster of a fast-paced city, the romanticism of strangers, and the ease of not having a care in the world, written in leah's signature tongue-in-cheek style, possibly more concretely detailed and spelled out for you than some of her later, more abstract, work. The joy of this book comes equally in the tiny sketches littered throughout: a London telephone booth, the Louvre, Big Ben, and the Eiffel Tower, to name a few, scrawled across the pages in wild ink sketch fashion, as fast-paced and impulsive as the poems themselves, reflected in a compact sketch/poem diary to complete the reader's journey. This poetry chapbook is definitely a must as a road companion to any European country, a fun and witty little jaunt through the author's mind while seeing the sights for yourself.