{"product_id":"a-dream-in-which-i-am-playing-with-bees-poems","title":"A Dream in Which I Am Playing with Bees Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy:\u003c\/strong\u003e R. K. Fauth\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished by Texas Tech University Press, 2024\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eA\u003cbr\u003eDream in Which I Am Playing with Bees\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of poems made of natural\u003cbr\u003eimagery, queer metaphors, personal observations, and historical circumstances\u003cbr\u003esurrounding honeybees. In the aftermath of a fictional bee extinction, these\u003cbr\u003epoems are presented to the post-bee reader as \"artifacts.\"\u003ci\u003ePlaying\u003cbr\u003ewith Bees\u003c\/i\u003e positions\u003cbr\u003epoetry in hindsight to contemplate poetry's \"natural\" inclinations toward\u003cbr\u003ebuilding 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\u003cbr\u003eif bees--and the relations they make possible--suddenly disappeared. Like any\u003cbr\u003enatural resource, the bee is a wellspring of possibility. Essential. Fragile.\u003cbr\u003eCausal. And like any animal, the pollinating bee has enabled a diverse phylum\u003cbr\u003eof phrases and myths that humans trade to express our most hard-to-name\u003cbr\u003efeelings.What\u003cbr\u003ein our imagination changes after a peg in the environment is removed? What\u003cbr\u003ecould disappear from our minds, our fantasies, and our self-descriptors, if\u003cbr\u003enature is no longer a mirror? \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eConsider a museum of language. As artifacts, these poems are\u003cbr\u003ethe residue of a dead species--but they are also the offshoots of a playful, \u003cbr\u003eabundant, delicate ecosystem. \u003ci\u003ePlaying with Bees\u003c\/i\u003e covets what's left. At\u003cbr\u003ethe bottom of everything, we find the fragments of an ecologically intact dream: \u003cbr\u003ean apocalypse in reverse.","brand":"Phoenix Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47185304354985,"sku":"PHBK-9781682831960","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/9899\/1785\/files\/4022873482787.jpg?v=1781379432","url":"https:\/\/myti.com\/products\/a-dream-in-which-i-am-playing-with-bees-poems","provider":"Myti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}