{"product_id":"a-dream-in-which-i-am-playing-with-bees-poems-9781682831960","title":"A Dream in Which I Am Playing with Bees: Poems","description":"\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. \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.  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. \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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texas Tech University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/16\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781682831960","brand":"Rk Fauth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43291214348469,"sku":"9781682831960","price":19.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_43a3598b-27da-434a-9d91-7e525256adbd.jpg?v=1700542392","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-dream-in-which-i-am-playing-with-bees-poems-9781682831960","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}