The Bees Have Been Canceled: Poems Bethany Pennypacker a mysterious man who has

a mysterious man who has been wounded by a stray shot

especially while juggling single-parenthood

are skillfully blended with Handler's own approaches to facing grief a second time to be able to write about it

a memoir about her inadvertent notoriety as the star of a Chinese soap opera

The Bees Have Been Canceled: Poems Bethany Pennypacker a mysterious man who has"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