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    Bees in the Grass
    Bees in the Grass
    Bees in the Grass
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    Bees in the Grass

    By Len Schweitzer

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    With a style somewhere between a hipster and a Japanese landscape painter, poet Len Schweitzer has mastered the poetics of image. In this, his first full-length book of poems, he presents us with such exotic pictures as a “fedora glazed with paris rain” and a “dead man’s skull rattling with silver coins.” He invites us to recall the scent of frangipani, the taste of mangoes and honey, the caress of a warm Gulf Stream breeze, and a hundred other bottled-up sensations that awaken the senses like an after-dinner tipple, sip by sip, poem by poem.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLen Schweitzer
    Release dateJun 23, 2013
    ISBN9781301360833
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