If Bees Are Few - A Hive of Bee Poems

Klappentext James P. Lenfestey is a former editorial writer for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where he won several Page One Awards for excellence. He has published a collection of personal essays, five collections of poems, the poetry anthology Low Down and Coming On: A Feast of Delicious and Dangerous Poems about Pigs, and coedited Robert Bly in This World, also from Minnesota. His memoir with prose and poems, Seeking the Cave: A Pilgrimage to Cold Mountain, Milkweed Editions, was a finalist for the 2014 Minnesota Book Award.Bill McKibben is an author and environmentalist who was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, sometimes called the "alternative Nobel," in 2014.Marla Spivak is an entomologist and Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota. In 2010 she was awarded a grant from the MacArthur Foundation for her pioneering research on honeybees. She heads the University’s Bee Lab (www.beelab.umn.edu). Zusammenfassung Virgil wrote ofbees! as did Shakespeare! Burns! Coleridge! Emerson! and Whitman! among manyothers. Amid the crisis befalling bees-hives collapsing! wild speciesdisappearing-the poems collected here speak with a quiet urgency of a worldlost if bees were to fall silent. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsForewordBill McKibbenIntroductionJames P. LenfesteySherman AlexieIn the Matter of Human v. BeeMaureen AshSwarmThorsten BaconOn BeesAliki BarnstoneAlasWillis BarnstoneEleven Tiny CommandmentsJohn BarrFirst LightTree BernsteinA/B/C ScenariosBarry BlumenfeldBoy with Honeybee HairRobert BlyWords RisingSean Borodale24th May: Collecting the Bees6th September: Wild Comb Notes10th February: QueenKarina BorowiczMedicineRuinsDavid BottomsCemetery WingsJill BreckenridgeHoneyFleda BrownBeesRobert Burns“Of A’ the Airts the Wind Can Blaw”John BurnsideMelissographiaJohn CaddyTwo New World BeesCarpenter BeeLeaf Cutter BeeJared CarterLanding the BeesSharon ChmielarzBeesLucille CliftonearthSamuel Taylor ColeridgeInscription for a Fountain on a HeathLorna CrozierAngel of BeesAnnie DeppeThe Sacrament of the BeesEmily DickinsonWith FlowersThe bee is not afraid of mePossessionTwo WorldsThe BeeCould I but ride indefiniteThe pedigree of honeyTo make a prairie it takes a clover and one beeJosephine DickinsonB?Carol Ann DuffyBeesArielVirgil’s BeesRalph Waldo EmersonThe Humble-BeeHeid E. ErdrichIntimate DetailStungEarl of Essex (Robert Devereaux)The Buzzeinge Bee’s ComplayntJohn EvansThe BeesDiane FaheyBeesLawrence FerlinghettiAlienation: Two Bees?Nick FlynnWorkers (Attendants)HiveBlind Huber (iii)QueenStuart FriebertSupersedureRoss GayOde to the BeekeeperEamon GrennanUp Against ItBarbara HambyThe Language of BeesTom HennenOutside WorkJim HeynenThe Man Who Talked to His BeesSelima HillElegy for the Bee-GodBrenda HillmanIn Summer, Everything is Something’s TwinJane HirshfieldBeesKevin HoldenBeesIssaHaikuHelen Hunt JacksonMy Bees: An AllegoryNaomi JacksonPrairie BeesGeorge JohnstonEcstaticSusan Deborah KingPrayerRudyard KiplingThe Bee-Boy’s SongD. H. LawrenceFlapperDavid LeeOn Finding a Drone Bee and a Painted Lady in the Same Claret Cup of Cactus BlossomJames P. LenfesteyHoneyBlaming the BeeNathaniel “Max” LenfesteyBeard of BeesHer StingDiane LockwardInvective Against the BumblebeeAntonio MachadoSongProverbs and SongsLast Night, As I Lay SleepingBruce MacKinnonThe BeesOsip MandelstamThe NecklaceThomas McCarthyForaging Honey-BeesPaula MeehanThe January BeeRobert MorganBees AwaterHoneyMoving the BeesLisel MuellerLife of a QueenAmy NashNot Just a Question of FertilityPablo NerudaOde to the BeeAimee NezhukumatathilBee WolfJoan NicholsonAntics of BeesNaomi Shihab NyeHoneybeeBees Were BetterPollenMary OliverHappinessHoney at the TableJoe PaddockA Sort of HoneyLinda PastanThe Death of the BeeSylvia PlathThe Bee MeetingStingsLia PurpuraBeeJeri ReillyHoneyJame...

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• Authors: James P. Lenfestey
• Assisted by: James P. Lenfestey (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9780816698066
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-9806-6
• No. of pages: 300
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama