A Dream in Which I Am Playing with Bees: Poems (Walt McDonald First-Book Series in Poetry) - Tapa dura

Fauth, RK

 
9781682831960: A Dream in Which I Am Playing with Bees: Poems (Walt McDonald First-Book Series in Poetry)
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ISBN 10: 1682831965 ISBN 13: 9781682831960
Editorial: Texas A & M University Press, 2024

Sinopsis

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." These are poems in hindsight.

Playing with Bees positions poetry in hindsight to contemplate poetry's "natural" inclinations towards building alternative worlds through earthbound metaphors. Whether in a 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 changes about our imaginations 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. Playingwith Bees covets what's left. At the bottom of everything, we find the fragments an ecologically intact dream; an apocalypse in reverse.

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Acerca del autor

RK Fauth is a poet whose writing has appeared in POETRY, The Rising Phoenix Review, Blue Unicorn, Dream of the River: an LGBTQ+ Anthology, The Non Binary Review, The Fulbright Korea Infusion, and elsewhere. From 2019–2022, RK ran the award-winning public humanities project, "Unprecedented," which circulated Black Plague–era erasure poems between strangers. She earned an M.A. at Georgetown University, where she also served as a Poetry Fellow at the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice. RK lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, with her fiancé and their two dogs.

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Editorial
Texas A & M University Press
Año de publicación
2024
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1682831965
ISBN 13 
9781682831960
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Número de páginas
277
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