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a memoir about her inadvertent notoriety as the star of a Chinese soap opera

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a mysterious man who has been wounded by a stray shot

From Grammaropolis

The Bees Have Been Canceled: Poems Bethany Pennypacker but getting over the beginner's"The poems in The Bees Have Been Canceled are ravenous, rich, and exquisitely built. Maya Catherine Popa's language makes visible how yearning tethers the mind to the world and how hurt spawns an astonishing self awareness. Her gaze alights on beauty and violence; it 'scurries from birth to blight.' Such attentive looking brings closer the brokenness of the world. This gaze is also restorative; it alleviates and mends and delights." Eduardo C. Corral