Who is allowed to speak? What is it to see? These are some of the questions filtering through Nick Flynn's extraordinary new collection. Loosely based on the life of Francois Huber, the eighteenth-century beekeeper and blind savant, who is alleged to have sat before a series of hives for fifty years, thereby unlocking, and entering deeply into, an unknown world. In these poems, Burnens, his assistant throughout, becomes Huber's eyes and hands, and eventually offers language for the intangible. In this imagined/actual world, everything seems to speak, yet silence and mystery hover at the edges. As the hive apparently warns, "What would you do inside me?/You would be utterly/lost...." Blind Huber is an act of creative obsession about the body, love, and devotion, about nature and the limits of knowledge. Nick Flynn's bees and beekeepers -- sometimes in a state of magnificent pollen-drunk dizziness -- view the world from a striking and daring perspective.