A Dream in Which I Am Playing With Bees: Poems (Walt Mcdonald First-Book in Poetry) - Hardcover

Fauth, R. K.

 
9781682831960: A Dream in Which I Am Playing With Bees: Poems (Walt Mcdonald First-Book in Poetry)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1682831965 ISBN 13: 9781682831960
Verlag: Texas A & M University Press, 2024

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ADream in Which I Am Playing with Bees is a collection of poems made of naturalimagery, queer metaphors, personal observations, and historical circumstancessurrounding honeybees. In the aftermath of a fictional bee extinction, thesepoems are presented to the post-bee reader as “artifacts.”

Playingwith Bees positionspoetry in hindsight to contemplate poetry’s “natural” inclinations towardbuilding 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 wayif bees—and the relations they make possible—suddenly disappeared. Like anynatural resource, the bee is a wellspring of possibility. Essential. Fragile.Causal. And like any animal, the pollinating bee has enabled a diverse phylumof phrases and myths that humans trade to express our most hard-to-namefeelings.

Whatin our imagination changes after a peg in the environment is removed? Whatcould disappear from our minds, our fantasies, and our self-descriptors, ifnature is no longer a mirror?

Consider a museum of language. As artifacts, these poems arethe residue of a dead species—but they are also the offshoots of a playful,abundant, delicate ecosystem. Playing with Bees covets what’s left. Atthe bottom of everything, we find the fragments of an ecologically intact dream:an apocalypse in reverse.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

RK Fauth earned a master's degree in
English from Georgetown University, where she also served as a Lannan
Poetry Fellow. Her writing has appeared in POETRY magazine, Poem-a-Day,
West Trade Review, The Decadent Review, AGNI literary
magazine, and elsewhere. Fauth has held fellowships and distinctions
from the Fulbright Program, the Alpine Fellowship Foundation, the Lannan
Foundation for Poetics and Social Practice, and the Academy of American
Poets. She currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina.

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Verlag
Texas A & M University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1682831965
ISBN 13 
9781682831960
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