The Berry and The Bee Author|Devin Kelly Across the country and around

Across the country and around the world

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

University of Minnesota Center for Forest Ecology

The Berry and The Bee Author|Devin Kelly Across the country and aroundSheila 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