The Berry and The Bee Author|Devin Kelly the exercises are all concrete

the exercises are all concrete and clearly presented—a marvelous way to mine the imaginations and experiences of today's most dynamic poets

they forge insightful connections between sex and death that illuminate and interrogate two of the central truths of our human condition: sexual and mortal

The titular play in verse that sits at the center of the book seeks to amplify the voices and experiences of victims

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Not So Far From Home features the big-hearted sensibility and empathetic portrayals of people whose lives are often overlooked or discounted that brought acclaim for Quimby's novels

The Berry and The Bee Author|Devin Kelly the exercises are all concreteSheila Dietz confronts experience with the acuteness and steadfastness we associate with poets such as Hopkins and Transtromer. Like them, she understands her investigations of the natural world and the workings of memory can offer a glimpse of divinity at one moment, and a reckoning with dread in the next. Dietz writes wise and self assured poems, noteworthy for striking metaphors, for bravura skill with the line and with syntax, and for a sure and