Bees, and after / John Liles ; foreword by Rae Armantrout.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Liles, John, 1991- author.

Contributor:

Armantrout, Rae, 1947- writer of foreword.

Series:

Yale series of younger poets ; v. 119.

Yale series of younger poets ; volume 119

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xii, 67 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"The 119th winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize places science at the heart of his powerful poems. For John Liles, science and the natural world form a route into the workings of love, of grief, and of joy in the thrum of life. Judge Rae Armantrout calls his poems "dense, sonically gorgeous studies of various natural things and creatures, including light, bees, minerals, shellfish and crabs, insects, and the workings (and failure) of the heart." Written under the shadow of our changing climate, Liles's poems are tender elegies but also praise-songs for the continual unfolding richness of the world. Writes Liles, "oh unending animal, / you go where / the light goes.""--Amazon.ca.

Contents:

Solar photon

Without which

The steady state

Half-life (quartz)

Half-life (okenite)

Half-life (opal)

Half-life (calcite)

Salt sifting

Abalone

Nimbus crush

After-year

Dog spark

Emergency for

Amnesic shellfish poisoning

Stone crinoid, sea lily

Cardiac knotting

With Half-life (forsterite)

Half-life (animal)

Audible heart efforts

Restful amyg

Astral bodies

Among others

Head lost illuminating

Facula

Paired into our chance at this

Paraphrasis

Woodlouse

Birds

Contusionist

About a biome

Longshot

Next of kin

Just us

Half-life

And goes the light

Lampshells (brachiopods)

My knowing better

How to ask anyone near

Parastasis

My hound.

ISBN:

9780300279429

0300279426

9780300279412

0300279418

OCLC:

1449673124