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By NAOMI SHIHAB NYE, AUTHOR OF THE TINY JOURNALISTMobi Warren has a magnificent gift for clarity and care. The precise elegance of seeing and saying, the many natural worlds we live within… “One Hundred Thousand, 2003” should be required reading by every “official.” All her poems should be required reading. What may be noticed – and is too often overlooked – shimmers with presence in her poems.
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By CARMEN TAFOLLA, STATE POET LAUREATE OF TEXAS 2015Within the whisper of her words, Warren captures both the delicate beauty and the heart-wrenching sacredness that cause us to sigh for that which surrounds us and to hold more precious its future and its fragility. Through poems intimately in touch with our planet, we find here sandhill cranes as “strings of prayer flags/ parents singing children/ across the sky”; sesame seeds clicking open their locks as our legacy of reconciliation; “a last taste of air”; and, of Oaxacan mole, the “color of your laughter/ tossed into a clay pot.” Through Mobi Warren’s poetry, we enter a magical and magnificent world, only to discover that it is our world—our very self-same world, which we have previously been too blind to see. Enjoy, absorb, become the stardust of these words, their pulse, and their eternally audible heartbeat.
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[The Bee Maker] is quite the story! It is so packed with interesting topics that lovers of many genres will be captivated …. the author weaves this tale like a master. We float captivated like a gentle breeze, unfolding each genre as creatively as the Bee Maker’s intricate folds of origami.