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Cover credits: Cover design: Scott Sorenson / Cover photograph: Morgan Mazzoni, Africanized killer bee's tail end (Apis mellifera scutellata) (c) Tony Stone.
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"Spellbound within wax edifices beneath a honey rain, Flynn succinctly
and resonantly contrasts the dense and thrumming bee realm with our own
buzzing, bittersweet world of avid appetites and aggressions. longing,
and valor." —Booklist |
Price: $14.00 USD
Poetry 1-55597-373-6, 92 pages, Paper
In this extraordinary second collection, Nick Flynn invites us to
consider the intricate geometry of the beehive. Our guide to this new
world is Blind Huber, loosely based on the eponymous eighteenth-century
beekeeper whose fifty-year obsession uncovered most of what we know
today about the hive. “I sit in a body & think of a body”, Huber
says, commanding us to “think of / a hive, each bee, each thought, the
hive / brims with thought.”
Blind Huber is an act of creative obsession about the body,
love, and devotion, about nature and the limits of knowledge. Nick
Flynn’s bees and beekeepers—sometimes in a state of magnificent
pollen-drunk dizziness—view the world from a striking and daring
perspective.
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