Honeycomb: Poems

by Carol Frost

The poems in PEN Award–winning author Carol Frost’s ninth collection spring from her experiences with her mother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s disease, forming a deeply moving meditation on memory and its role in the creation and evolution of identity and relationships. Frost maintains complete command of her imaginative leaps between the natural and spiritual worlds in diverse poetic forms. Using the disappearance of bees as her prevailing metaphoric backdrop, the poet deftly explores the varied emotions occasioned by her mother’s slow deterioration. Like its eponym, Honeycomb is stunning in its details, but it wears its craftsmanship lightly, yielding an accessible yet profound work.

Genres: Poetry

64 pages, Paperback

First published October 30, 2010

About the author

Carol Frost is the author of Entwined: Three Lyric Sequences (Tupelo Press, 2014). She teaches at Rollins College in Florida and spends summers in upstate New York.

Reviews

[Thing Two · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've said this before - I don't often review poetry books. Poetry is so subjective. What moves me one day may not the next, and the style of poetry I like most may not do anything for you. With that being said, this is a beautiful book.

Carol Frost explores the experience of her mother's struggle with Alzheimer's disease with these poems. She uses the disappearance of bees as her prevailing metaphoric backdrop (so says the back of the book). It's gorgeous writing.