Blind Huber Poems

Name: Blind Huber Poems
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ISBN: 9781555973735

ISBN-10: 1555973736

ISBN-13: 9781555973735

Edition: 2002

Authors: Nick Flynn

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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 Franccedil;ois 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…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Publication date: 10/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 5.00" wide x 6.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English



Blind Huber (i)


Swarm


Blind Huber (ii)


Workers (attendants)


Hive


Blind Huber (iii)


Queen


Workers (guards)


Blind Huber (iv)


Virgin Queen


Drones


Twinned


Blind Huber (v)


Inside Nothing


Blind Huber (vi)


Geometry


Innocence


Amber


Melitopoles


Wax (Jesus)


Blind Huber (vii)


Paper Wasp


Xenophon's Soldiers


Without


Pheromone


Blind Huber (viii)


Blind Huber (ix)


Blind Huber (x)


Wax Father


Blind Huber (xi)


Statuary


Blind Huber (xii)


Burnens (i)


Unquiet


Workers (foragers)


Blind Huber (xiii)


Rain


Mites


Blind Huber (xiv)


Queen (failed)


Workers (robbers)


Worker (lost)


Worker


Unfamiliar


Burnens (ii)