Author: Nick Flynn
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555979335
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 73
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Award-winning poet Nick Flynn takes readers into the dangerous and irresistible center of the hive I sit in a body & think of a body, I picture Burnens' hands, my words make them move. I say, plunge them into the hive, & his hands go in.-from "Blind Huber" Blindness does not deter François Huber-the eighteenth-century beekeeper-in his quest to learn about bees through their behavior. Through an odd, but productive arrangement, Huber's assistant Burnens becomes his eyes, his narrator as he goes about his work. In Nick Flynn's extraordinary new collection, Huber and Burnens speak and so do the bees. The strongest virgin waits silently to kill the other virgins; drones are "made of waiting"; the swarm attempts to protect the queen. It is a cruel existence. Everyone sacrifices for the sweet honey, except the human hand that harvests it all in a single afternoon. Blind Huber is about the body, love, and devotion and also about the limits of what can be known and what will forever be unknown. Nick Flynn's bees and keepers-sometimes in a state of magnificent pollen-drunk dizziness-view the world from a striking and daring perspective.
Author: Nick Flynn
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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"Meditations on the body, love, devotion, and about nature and the limits of knowledge"--Page 4 of cover.
Author: Nick Flynn
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555979343
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 93
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Winner of a "Discovery"/The Nation Award Winner of the 1999 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry Some Ether is one of the more remarkable debut collections of poetry to appear in America in recent memory. As Mark Doty has noted, "these poems are more than testimony; in lyrics of ringing clarity and strange precision, Flynn conjures a will to survive, the buoyant motion toward love which is sometimes all that saves us. Some Ether resonates in the imagination long after the final poem; this is a startling, moving debut."
Author: William Hanks Levy
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Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Author: Sara George
Publisher: Headline Review
ISBN: 9780747266631
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Despite beginning to go blind at age fifteen, François Huber finds himself increasingly fascinated with science, forcing him to enlist a young servant as his assistant in his obsessive exploration of the world of the bee. Reprint.
Author: Edward Newman
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Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Author: Randall Mann
Publisher: Diode Editions
ISBN: 1939728304
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 157
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The Illusion of Intimacy: On Poetry brings Randall Mann’s characteristic wit, fearlessness, and attention to language, to twenty years of critical works, including reviews of early books by Laura Kasischke and Vijay Seshadri; essays on Shame, Money, and Forgetting; appreciations of Thom Gunn and John Ashbery; and two interviews. This incisive collection—a combination of criticism, close reading, autobiography, exuberance, and occasional irritation—offers a look into the mind of one of America’s finest formalists, revealing how the compression and vulnerability of the lyric draws us closer to, while asking us to resist, the limitations, freedoms, and intimacies of poetry.
Author: Nick Flynn
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 155597905X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 103
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A daring and intimate new book by the poet and memoirist Nick Flynn, "a champion of contemporary American poetry" (Newpages) . . . the take from his bank jobs, all of it will come to me, if I can just get him to draw me a map, if I can find the tree, if I can find the shovel. And the house, the mansion he grew up in, soon a lawyer will pass a key across a walnut desk, but even this lawyer will not be able to tell me where this mansion is. —from "Kafka" In My Feelings, Nick Flynn makes no claims on anyone else's. These poems inhabit a continually shifting sense of selfhood, in the attempt to contain quicksilver realms of emotional energy—from grief and panic to gratitude and understanding.
