The Bees Have Been Canceled: Poems Bethany Pennypacker Somewhere between the secular disregard

Somewhere between the secular disregard for the commands of Christ and the sacred unwillingness to deal with real problems of people

especially while juggling single-parenthood

From Grammaropolis

a mysterious man who has been wounded by a stray shot

The Bees Have Been Canceled: Poems Bethany Pennypacker Somewhere between the secular disregard"The poems in The Bees Have Been Canceled are ravenous, rich, and exquisitely built. Maya Catherine Popa's language makes visible how yearning tethers the mind to the world and how hurt spawns an astonishing self awareness. Her gaze alights on beauty and violence; it 'scurries from birth to blight.' Such attentive looking brings closer the brokenness of the world. This gaze is also restorative; it alleviates and mends and delights." Eduardo C. Corral