A Dream in Which I Am Playing with Bees: Poems
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Dream in Which I Am Playing with Bees is a collection of poems made of natural imagery, queer metaphors, personal observations, and historical circumstances surrounding honeybees. In the aftermath of a fictional bee extinction, these poems are presented to the post-bee reader as "artifacts."Playing with Bees positions poetry in hindsight to contemplate poetry's "natural" inclinations toward building alternative worlds through earthbound metaphors. Whether a single line or an entire premise, none of the poems could think, speak, or see in the same way if bees--and the relations they make possible--suddenly disappeared. Like any natural resource, the bee is a wellspring of possibility. Essential. Fragile.
Causal. And like any animal, the pollinating bee has enabled a diverse phylum of phrases and myths that humans trade to express our most hard-to-name feelings.What in our imagination changes after a peg in the environment is removed? What could disappear from our minds, our fantasies, and our self-descriptors, if nature is no longer a mirror?
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Dream in Which I Am Playing with Bees is a collection of poems made of natural imagery, queer metaphors, personal observations, and historical circumstances surrounding honeybees. In the aftermath of a fictional bee extinction, these poems are presented to the post-bee reader as "artifacts."Playing with Bees positions poetry in hindsight to contemplate poetry's "natural" inclinations toward building alternative worlds through earthbound metaphors. Whether a single line or an entire premise, none of the poems could think, speak, or see in the same way if bees--and the relations they make possible--suddenly disappeared. Like any natural resource, the bee is a wellspring of possibility. Essential. Fragile.
Causal. And like any animal, the pollinating bee has enabled a diverse phylum of phrases and myths that humans trade to express our most hard-to-name feelings.What in our imagination changes after a peg in the environment is removed? What could disappear from our minds, our fantasies, and our self-descriptors, if nature is no longer a mirror?
Consider a museum of language. As artifacts, these poems are the residue of a dead species--but they are also the offshoots of a playful,
abundant, delicate ecosystem. Playing with Bees covets what's left. At the bottom of everything, we find the fragments of an ecologically intact dream:
an apocalypse in reverse.
A Dream in Which I Am Playing with Bees: Poems
A
Dream in Which I Am Playing with Bees is a collection of poems made of natural imagery, queer metaphors, personal observations, and historical circumstances surrounding honeybees. In the aftermath of a fictional bee extinction, these poems are presented to the post-bee reader as "artifacts."Playing with Bees positions poetry in hindsight to contemplate poetry's "natural" inclinations toward building alternative worlds through earthbound metaphors. Whether a single line or an entire premise, none of the poems could think, speak, or see in the same way if bees--and the relations they make possible--suddenly disappeared. Like any natural resource, the bee is a wellspring of possibility. Essential. Fragile.
Causal. And like any animal, the pollinating bee has enabled a diverse phylum of phrases and myths that humans trade to express our most hard-to-name feelings.What in our imagination changes after a peg in the environment is removed? What could disappear from our minds, our fantasies, and our self-descriptors, if nature is no longer a mirror?
Dream in Which I Am Playing with Bees is a collection of poems made of natural imagery, queer metaphors, personal observations, and historical circumstances surrounding honeybees. In the aftermath of a fictional bee extinction, these poems are presented to the post-bee reader as "artifacts."Playing with Bees positions poetry in hindsight to contemplate poetry's "natural" inclinations toward building alternative worlds through earthbound metaphors. Whether a single line or an entire premise, none of the poems could think, speak, or see in the same way if bees--and the relations they make possible--suddenly disappeared. Like any natural resource, the bee is a wellspring of possibility. Essential. Fragile.
Causal. And like any animal, the pollinating bee has enabled a diverse phylum of phrases and myths that humans trade to express our most hard-to-name feelings.What in our imagination changes after a peg in the environment is removed? What could disappear from our minds, our fantasies, and our self-descriptors, if nature is no longer a mirror?
Consider a museum of language. As artifacts, these poems are the residue of a dead species--but they are also the offshoots of a playful,
abundant, delicate ecosystem. Playing with Bees covets what's left. At the bottom of everything, we find the fragments of an ecologically intact dream:
an apocalypse in reverse.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781682831960 |
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| Publisher: | Texas Tech University Press |
| Publication date: | 01/16/2024 |
| Series: | Walt McDonald First-Book Series in Poetry |
| Pages: | 87 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.91(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.79(d) |
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