The Halo of Bees: New & Selected Poems, 1990-2022

The Halo of Bees is comprised of new poems by Michael Hettich plus selections from his twelve collections published from 1990 to 2022. Hettich has been called "an earthy fabulist" (Susan Kelly-DeWitt), "a master of the simile" (Denise Duhamel), and "one of our best and most necessary poets" (Richard Jones); his poetry "tender, endlessly inventive" (Chase Twitchell), "stunningly intuitive and elemental" (Richard Blanco), and "half-remembered fables or lyrical dreams" (Campbell McGrath).