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Reviewed on April 15, 2006
Frost�s tenth collection of verse (afterI Will Say Beauty ) moves from a cold northern landscape of apiaries and dying bees into a lush tropical zone of "pigfish pinfish herring sheepshead silverside." The first section, "The Queen�s Desertion," is about loss and grief. Dead bees fall, and sometimes the queen dies: "her earlier German tongue-rhyming, Schiller lines./ Where were you? I�ll ask. Wer bist du? she�ll say,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More


