Keeping the Swarm: New and Selected Essays

Packed with sweetness and stinging, George Venn's KEEPING THE SWARM: NEW AND SELECTED ESSAYS is a honey house chuckablock of eclectic gifts: stories, songs, adventures, memoirs, meditations, eulogies, poems. There are new cells of joy, old black combs of grief, memories of love's honey flow. "This welcome essay collection by the sharpest-eyed Northwest writer conjures the region he knows so intimately. His careful portraits of mining towns, wheat harvest, bee keeping, snowland wonders ring clean and true... This venerable voice blesses every reader with another brave and rewarding book." --Craig Lesley, author of BURNING FENCE