Bees, and After by John Liles
The 119th winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize places science at the heart of his powerful poemsFor 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.”
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Crush
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Slow Lightning
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What Noise Against the Cane
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Mothman Apologia
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Some Trees
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Frail-Craft
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The Year of Blue Water
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Views of Jeopardy
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Ward Toward
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Shells
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Thrown Voice
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A Crackling Of Thorns
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Ultima Thule
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Icehouse Lights
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Out of the Woods
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One Way to Reconstruct the Scene
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The Yale Younger Poets Anthology
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Natural Histories
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Thinking the World Visible
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Hermit with Landscape
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The Solace Is Not the Lullaby
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Hands of the Saddlemaker
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Westerly
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Field Guide
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Simulacra
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Radial Symmetry
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Gathering the Tribes
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Blue Yodel
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The Evolution of the Flightless Bird
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Juvenilia
“[Liles] is especially attuned to the small, the things we take for granted or don’t notice at all. . . [His] speculative precision is where science meets art.”—Rae Armantrout, from the Foreword
“For John Liles, matter’s ecstatic. With precise science and sprung rhythm, his poems render ecological intimacies legible and audible. Biotic or abiotic, everything here sings, from cell down to particle.”—Brian Teare, author of Poem Bitten by a Man
“Reading this is like looking into a microscope: everything small is consequential, and almost unrecognizable. A book full of scientific terms shouldn’t be able to grab you by the emotions, but it does.”—Matthew Rohrer, author of Army of Giants
“This is a dual work, both prism and portal, where the specific Real and the honed, carefully tuned language—sonic, micro- and macroscopic—conjoin, crystallizing into delicate forms on Liles’s rarefied page.”—Cody-Rose Clevidence, author of Listen My Friend, This Is the Dream I Dreamed Last Night
“For John Liles, matter’s ecstatic. With precise science and sprung rhythm, his poems render ecological intimacies legible and audible. Biotic or abiotic, everything here sings, from cell down to particle.”—Brian Teare, author of Poem Bitten by a Man
“Reading this is like looking into a microscope: everything small is consequential, and almost unrecognizable. A book full of scientific terms shouldn’t be able to grab you by the emotions, but it does.”—Matthew Rohrer, author of Army of Giants
“This is a dual work, both prism and portal, where the specific Real and the honed, carefully tuned language—sonic, micro- and macroscopic—conjoin, crystallizing into delicate forms on Liles’s rarefied page.”—Cody-Rose Clevidence, author of Listen My Friend, This Is the Dream I Dreamed Last Night
John Liles is a poet, science writer, and living mammal. His chapbook Following the dog down was the recipient of the Omnidawn Chapbook Prize. He lives in Fort Bragg, CA. Rae Armantrout is the award-winning author of eighteen books of poetry, most recently Finalists, Conjure, and Wobble.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780300279429 |
| ISBN 10 | 0300279426 |
| Title | Bees, and After |
| Author | John Liles |
| Series | Yale Series Of Younger Poets |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year published | 2025-05-27 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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