The poems in Affirmation find the remarkable in the seemingly ordinary, and, without glossing over the difficulties and hardships of living, articulate a hopeful vision of the world.
The poems in Steve Straight\'s book do just this for the reader..
In the poem Telling the Bees, the speaker is exhausted by the smoke of doubt and fear, and longs to be stung again / by wonder, by joy.
The poems in Affirmation find the remarkable in the seemingly ordinary, and, without glossing over the difficulties and hardships of living, articulate a hopeful vision of the world