Bees, and After

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Author: John Liles Publisher: Yale Books (2025) 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. Jud ge 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.” Show more