The Berry and The Bee Author|Devin Kelly The titular play in verse

The titular play in verse that sits at the center of the book seeks to amplify the voices and experiences of victims

Ansel Adams

she joins a hyphenated line of women who must angle through and over their own raped bodies to note what lies down with the language of violence

"Cortez has been and continues to be an explorer

The Birthday of the Dead is dark

The Berry and The Bee Author|Devin Kelly The titular play in verseSheila 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