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Bees, Paperback by Duffy, Carol Ann, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US. Here Carol Ann Duffy uses her full poetic range: there are drinking songs, love poems, poems of political anger; there are elegies, too, for beloved friends, and'most movingly'the poet's own mother. Woven and weaving through th is its presiding spirit: the bee. Bees, Paperback by Duffy, Carol Ann, ISBN 1509852921, ISBN-13 9781509852925, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Here Carol Ann Duffy uses her full poetic range: there are drinking songs, love poems, poems of political anger; there are elegies, too, for beloved friends, and'most movingly'the poet's own mother. Woven and weaving through th is its presiding spirit: the bee. Sometimes the bee is Duffy's subject, sometimes it strays into the poem, or hovers at its edge. In the end, Duffy's point is clear: the bee symbolizes what we have left of grace in the world, and what is most precious and necessary for us to protect. The Bees , at once intimate and public, is a work of great power from one of our most cherished poets.