{"product_id":"fauth-rk-a-dream-inhb","title":"Fauth, RK: A Dream in Which I Am Playing with Bees","description":"\u003cp\u003eTexas Tech University Press, hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: January 16, 2024\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003ci\u003eA Dream in Which I Am Playing with Bees\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlaying with Bees\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConsider 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. \u003ci\u003ePlaying with Bees\u003c\/i\u003e covets what's left. At the bottom of everything, we find the fragments an ecologically intact dream; an apocalypse in reverse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40579443916823,"sku":"9781682831960","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/ibg.common.titledetail_c463f46e-947a-4377-9713-f0c3b0dea1bb.gif?v=1685821293","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/fauth-rk-a-dream-inhb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}