The hardest sweet is sharp to the tongue, painful, cutting, and often divine.
Barksdale move.
The speakers in these poems open to their sorrows and passions and then push forward into stories that-while understood-are still evolving.
The poems in Jessica Barksdale \'s collection Grim Honey follow thin paths of grief, up through steep switchbacks and down the rocky declines into the meadows, where for a moment, we can pause and remember before moving on.
The hardest sweet is sharp to the tongue, painful, cutting, and often divine