Hive

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In Hive a book-length poem that explores the poetics of the apiary Suzanne Mercury creates a meadow: a world a microcosm a universe which invites the reader into a renewed sense of the world.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)></strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Drawing on Cornelius Agrippa's system of magic squares [Mercury] creates a complexly layered text that encourages multiple ways of reading it. Shot through with wonder and mourning Hive operates as a divinatory text by which random combinations of words and lines intersect to create arresting moments of fissured beauty. It is a work of lyric audacity. (Patrick Pritchett)</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)></span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Graceful and humane Mercury's poems draw out connections between living things the breathing space between humans and honey bees oaks and constellations between the body's many-sensed conjoined impressions.  (Andrew K Peterson)</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>