Muse reviews Letting Rain Have Its Say

In Letting Rain Have Its Say, Baier Stein, who is also the author of three previous books (one nonfiction, one fiction, and a poetry chap) rhapsodizes on the utter bliss of marriage and then gently mourns the stilled life of loss in its wake, which still somehow seems cast in golden light. She finds beauty in the quotidian moments of her family and beginnings, and she finds mystery and delight in her travels to other places. But in every single poem—joyful or pained—there is a turning toward unbearable beauty that is impossible to ignore. Over every cobweb of the heart there is a strand of sunshine in these poems.