In Blind Huber, Nick Flynn has collaborated with a swarm of honeybees and a sightless old French beekeeper of a distant century to produce a cycle of poems exposing the fierceness and wonder of the dance of life in the natural world. This is a work of the creative imagination unlike any other, so deeply grounded in its field of observation that it reinforces William Blake's emphatic pronouncement: "To particularize is the lone distinction of merit. . . . for Art & Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

Stanley Kunitz