A Necklace of Bees

With a quirky poignance, Dannye Romine Powellas third collection probes the nature of lossaloss that's actual and loss that's feared. In these poems, loss takes many guises. With its ferny breath, loss is sometimes the lover who waits in secret on the porch. Sometimes even loss recognizes the feeling of loss and "calls the cops / to say his best friend / went fishing and won't answer his phone." Often, the poet mourns a loss of innocence, as when she learns, after attending the funeral of a friend, that the dead woman's husband has a history of infidelity. There's also the loss of romantic love, as when the woman "pulls / toward shore, a shore she calls by a name / she swore she'd never breathe again."

ISBN	1557288798	Pages	60
ISBN13	9781557288790 (What's this?)	Volumes	1
Publisher	University of Arkansas Press	Weight (grammes)	113
Imprint	University of Arkansas Press	Published in	Fayetteville
Format	Paperback	Series title	University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series
Publication date	15 Dec 2008	Height (mm)	229
Library of Congress	2008015312	Width (mm)	152
DEWEY	811.6	Spine width (mm)	5
DEWEY edition	DC22	Academic level	General

I	Everyone Is Afraid of Something
	Loss Waits on the Porch	3
	The Child and I	4
	Everyone Is Afraid of Something	6
	I Stopped Drinking in Hopes Loss Would Stop, Too	7
	Daddy Tosses Them Down	8
	Loss Received a Letter Once	10
	The Avalanche	11
	You Have Ruined Us for the Pragmatic World	12
	Two Sisters in Their Gabardine Skirts	13
	My Mother's Lips	14
	How Her Words Entered Me When She Called to Say My Father Had Died at Last after Ten Months of Pain	15
	After the Stroke	16
	Loss Touched Death Once	17
II	The Earth Beneath the Earth
	All I Know for Certain	21
	It Is Said That Wigmakers	22
	The Gaudy Clothes of Tourists	23
	This Morning	24
	Loss Dreams He Hears Sobbing	25
	Dying from the Feet Up	26
	Loss Calls the Cops	28
	When He Told Her	29
	Why She Plants Lavender	30
	Your Beautiful Hands	31
	She Told Me the Dead Woman's Husband Had Been Running Around for Years	33
	The Train Whistle	34
	Arranging a Life	36
	Poem Beginning with a Line from Walker Percy	37
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"Dannye Romine Powell's luminous new poems seem places we've all been, made of words we wished we had said: where we take the dead shopping, where Loss is made flesh, and where a son and a garden teach us too much about sacrifice. Bravo!" - Alan Michael Parker, author of Love Song with Motor Vehicles "The poems in A Necklace of Bees are lyrical, passionate, intimate, and nervy, and they respect the complex reality of love. They do not gloss; they do not lie. They tell the beautiful, painful truth." - Kelly Cherry, author of Hazard and Prospect: New and Selected Poems"

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