Telling the Bees

Telling the Bees

<div>Faith Shearin’s latest poetry collection, <I>Telling the Bees, </I>is evidence of an ongoing, important talent.  The author of three previous collections of poetry, the most recent, <I>Moving the Piano </I>(Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2011), was featured on numerous occasions on Garrison Keillor’s <I>The Writer’s Almanac.  </I>Doubtless, the book received such overwhelming attention because Shearin proves, poem after poem, that she writes what we need:  poetry that is accessible and meaningful, without gimmick and possessing a music and imagination hardly equaled by her contemporaries. <BR><br> As poet Tim Seibles wrote about <I>Moving the Piano, </I>“I think we want poems that can help us, poems that invite us to be clear . . . so that we can take the next step and not be made a fool by this life.” <I>Telling the Bees </I>is no-nonsense poetry at its best.</div>