The Bees Have Been Canceled de Maya Catherine Popa

The Bees Have Been Canceled

Maya Catherine Popa

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 feb 2017

"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
"Maya Catherine Popa's The Bees Have Been Canceled is haunted by violence and catastrophe, by the consequences of human desire turned to incommensurate ends, and anxious about the resources of language. There are no glib answers, only a certain kind of belief (the kind Emily Dickinson might recognize) embodied afresh in poems that are richly textured, and filled with energy, wit, and intelligence. Popa's work is serious, but there's joy here, too, in a balance that defies gravity." --Averill Curdy

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maya catherine popa is a writer and teacher in New York City. She holds an mfa in Poetry from nyu and an mst in Writing from Oxford University, where she was the recipient of a Clarendon Scholarship. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Barnard College in 2011. A Ruth Lilly finalist, she is the recipient of the Editors Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the Hippocrates Prize, the Gregory O'Donoghue Prize, and prizes from Narrative Magazine. Her poetry and criticism appear in Poetry, Tin House, Kenyon Review, The TLS, and elsewhere. She is a member of the English faculty and oversees the Christine Schutt Creative Writing Program at the Nightingale-Bamford school in New York City.