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Buzz Words: Poems About Insects
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The title alone is enough to make you giddy. As we’ve seen in the beauty of such books as Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s World of Wonders, nature can’t be celebrated enough. We love this small as a bug book of poetry. We get a renewed sense of the world from the clever chapters that divide each insect into their literary group — ants and bees in “Workers,” crickets and cicadas in “Singers” — to the impressive and diverse selection of poems.
A unique hardcover anthology of poems—from around the world and through the ages—that celebrates the gloriously diverse insect world. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET.
Given that insects vastly outnumber us, it is no surprise that many cultures have long and rich traditions of verse about our tiny fellow creatures. Tang Dynasty poets in China and the haiku masters of Japan composed thousands of works in praise of crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas, moths, and butterflies, as well as such humbl...
Given that insects vastly outnumber us, it is no surprise that many cultures have long and rich traditions of verse about our tiny fellow creatures. Tang Dynasty poets in China and the haiku masters of Japan composed thousands of works in praise of crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas, moths, and butterflies, as well as such humbl...