<div>Faith Shearin’s latest poetry collection, <i>Telling the Bees, </i>is evidence of an ongoing, important talent. The author of three previous collections of poetry, the most recent,<i>Moving the Piano </i>(Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2011), was featured on numerous occasions on Garrison Keillor’s<i>The Writer’s Almanac. </i>Doubtless, the book received such overwhelming attention because Shearin proves, poem after poem, that she writes what we need: poetry that is accessible and meaningful, without gimmick and possessing a music and imagination hardly equaled by her contemporaries. <br><br>As poet Tim Seibles wrote about <i>Moving the Piano, </i>“I think we want poems that can help us, poems that invite us to be clear . . . so that we can take the next step and not be made a fool by this life.”<i>Telling the Bees </i>is no-nonsense poetry at its best.</div>