Robert Peters has been writing fearless, impassioned, and often hilarious assessments of contemporary American poetry for the past three decades and has earned a reputation as a foremost critic of the art. Where the Bee Sucks offers readers the best of these writings collected in a single volume. Included are some thirty-five essays on and reviews of such major figures as Robert Bly, Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Diane Wakowski, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Tess Gallagher, and W. S. Merwin, as well as commentaries on the work of many lesser-known poets.