The Honey of Earth

How can I--or anyone--not adore David Grahams new collection? The tone throughout is hospitable wry and affirming even while acknowledging that loss and suffering are ever present. The honey of earth comes and goes at once Wallace Stevens wrote and these poems embody that paradox in vivid detail and compelling language. The sweetness that life offers--love art music family nature--exists simultaneously with the bitterness it guarantees--pain grief death. Both coming and going The Honey of Earth deftly weaves darkness and light together with great wisdom humor and compassion. --Eric Nelson