Review
I just read the most delightful book, poetry about teaching and literature (that doesn't sound as funny and touching as it is but students and writers are people too and writing can go deep). It's One Blackbird at a Time, by Wendy Barker.  

My copy came to me used and I think I bought it somewhere, but if you loaned it to me, tell me quick because I want to pass it on to a friend. (And, yes, I'll buy some new copies because I have some friends that will love it).  

Hard to pick a favorite bit but it might be the moment when she is having a root canal and her dentist recites the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales to her.