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WATCHING BEES IBD

FINISHING LINE PRESS
09 / 2023
9798888383629
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Sinopsis

Watching Bees, the authorâÇÖs fourth collection, brings together thirty mostly short poems, many previously published in (e.g.) Scientific American, some already anthologized.áSpeaking in voices that move easily between different forms, these poems inhabit lives ranging from NoahâÇÖs wife reluctantly boarding the Ark, through Trojan warriors on the eve of defeat or survivors of the Black Death or StalinâÇÖs Terror, to sharp-edged current political comment.áBeneath them simmer resonant tensions between family members - and between past and present, memory and personal responsibility, despair and hope.áAs the speaker notes in 'Kitchen Talk, 'The recipes IâÇÖm bequeathed are meals / for fishes, splattered by spoons and sauces, / stained with secrets.'áThat blend of ironic detachment and feeling is the beating heart of this book.

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20,63