false 20658 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487m/20658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487s/20658.jpg 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 François 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 waiting"; the swarm attempts to protect the queen. It is a cruel existence. Everyone sacrifices for the sweet honey, except the human hand that harvests it all in a single afternoon.

Blind Huber is about the body, love, and devotion and also about the limits of what can be known and what will forever be unknown. Nick Flynn's bees and keepers—sometimes in a state of magnificent pollen-drunk dizziness—view the world from a striking and daring perspective.
</div>]]> 20658 1 21846 1 10 2002 Blind Huber: Poems total:157|5:47|4:59|3:36|2:12|1:3| 157 606 222 19 220 3.81 2330 391 28266842 144287 20658 1555973736 9781555973735 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487m/20658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487s/20658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20658.Blind_Huber_Poems 3.86 157 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 François 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 waiting"; the swarm attempts to protect the queen. It is a cruel existence. Everyone sacrifices for the sweet honey, except the human hand that harvests it all in a single afternoon.

Blind Huber is about the body, love, and devotion and also about the limits of what can be known and what will forever be unknown. Nick Flynn's bees and keepers—sometimes in a state of magnificent pollen-drunk dizziness—view the world from a striking and daring perspective.
</div>]]> 2002 3 1 false Mon Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jul 25 10:25:08 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 18 12:35:19 -0800 2008 more...]]> 64398819 1368355 20658 1555973736 9781555973735 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487m/20658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487s/20658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20658.Blind_Huber_Poems 3.86 157 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 François 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 waiting"; the swarm attempts to protect the queen. It is a cruel existence. Everyone sacrifices for the sweet honey, except the human hand that harvests it all in a single afternoon.

Blind Huber is about the body, love, and devotion and also about the limits of what can be known and what will forever be unknown. Nick Flynn's bees and keepers—sometimes in a state of magnificent pollen-drunk dizziness—view the world from a striking and daring perspective.
</div>]]> 2002 0 0 false Mon Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 12:47:21 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 13:14:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 44753381 666292 20658 1555973736 9781555973735 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487m/20658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487s/20658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20658.Blind_Huber_Poems 3.86 157 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 François 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 waiting"; the swarm attempts to protect the queen. It is a cruel existence. Everyone sacrifices for the sweet honey, except the human hand that harvests it all in a single afternoon.

Blind Huber is about the body, love, and devotion and also about the limits of what can be known and what will forever be unknown. Nick Flynn's bees and keepers—sometimes in a state of magnificent pollen-drunk dizziness—view the world from a striking and daring perspective.
</div>]]> 2002 2 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 29 09:06:48 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 09:14:51 -0800 2009
I don't often read books of poetry from front to back, but rather p...more...]]> 10812047 225549 20658 1555973736 9781555973735 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487m/20658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487s/20658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20658.Blind_Huber_Poems 3.86 157 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 François 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 waiting"; the swarm attempts to protect the queen. It is a cruel existence. Everyone sacrifices for the sweet honey, except the human hand that harvests it all in a single afternoon.

Blind Huber is about the body, love, and devotion and also about the limits of what can be known and what will forever be unknown. Nick Flynn's bees and keepers—sometimes in a state of magnificent pollen-drunk dizziness—view the world from a striking and daring perspective.
</div>]]> 2002 2 1 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 21 08:08:05 -0800 2007 Sat Jan 12 07:15:42 -0800 2008
"When you see us swarm -- rustle of
wingbeat, collapsed air -- your mind
tries to make us one"]]> 5051900 306853 20658 1555973736 9781555973735 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487m/20658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487s/20658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20658.Blind_Huber_Poems 3.86 157 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 François 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 waiting"; the swarm attempts to protect the queen. It is a cruel existence. Everyone sacrifices for the sweet honey, except the human hand that harvests it all in a single afternoon.

Blind Huber is about the body, love, and devotion and also about the limits of what can be known and what will forever be unknown. Nick Flynn's bees and keepers—sometimes in a state of magnificent pollen-drunk dizziness—view the world from a striking and daring perspective.
</div>]]> 2002 0 0 false Fri Aug 24 12:25:42 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 18 08:44:55 -0800 2008 more...]]> 52183807 2208320 20658 1555973736 9781555973735 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487m/20658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487s/20658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20658.Blind_Huber_Poems 3.86 157 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 François 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 waiting"; the swarm attempts to protect the queen. It is a cruel existence. Everyone sacrifices for the sweet honey, except the human hand that harvests it all in a single afternoon.

Blind Huber is about the body, love, and devotion and also about the limits of what can be known and what will forever be unknown. Nick Flynn's bees and keepers—sometimes in a state of magnificent pollen-drunk dizziness—view the world from a striking and daring perspective.
</div>]]> 2002 4 0 false Fri Apr 10 08:19:32 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 08:19:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 48941997 820928 20658 1555973736 9781555973735 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487m/20658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487s/20658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20658.Blind_Huber_Poems 3.86 157 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 François 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 waiting"; the swarm attempts to protect the queen. It is a cruel existence. Everyone sacrifices for the sweet honey, except the human hand that harvests it all in a single afternoon.

Blind Huber is about the body, love, and devotion and also about the limits of what can be known and what will forever be unknown. Nick Flynn's bees and keepers—sometimes in a state of magnificent pollen-drunk dizziness—view the world from a striking and daring perspective.
</div>]]> 2002 3 0 false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 11 12:21:08 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 12:25:40 -0700 2009 50307893 129683 20658 1555973736 9781555973735 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487m/20658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487s/20658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20658.Blind_Huber_Poems 3.86 157 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 François 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 waiting"; the swarm attempts to protect the queen. It is a cruel existence. Everyone sacrifices for the sweet honey, except the human hand that harvests it all in a single afternoon.

Blind Huber is about the body, love, and devotion and also about the limits of what can be known and what will forever be unknown. Nick Flynn's bees and keepers—sometimes in a state of magnificent pollen-drunk dizziness—view the world from a striking and daring perspective.
</div>]]> 2002 2 0 false Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 12:14:21 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 11:33:56 -0700 2009
...]]> 48539330 1204352 20658 1555973736 9781555973735 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487m/20658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487s/20658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20658.Blind_Huber_Poems 3.86 157 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 François 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 waiting"; the swarm attempts to protect the queen. It is a cruel existence. Everyone sacrifices for the sweet honey, except the human hand that harvests it all in a single afternoon.

Blind Huber is about the body, love, and devotion and also about the limits of what can be known and what will forever be unknown. Nick Flynn's bees and keepers—sometimes in a state of magnificent pollen-drunk dizziness—view the world from a striking and daring perspective.
</div>]]> 2002 3 0 false Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 07 15:47:58 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 25 11:26:18 -0700 2009 32790994 1525357 20658 1555973736 9781555973735 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487m/20658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487s/20658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20658.Blind_Huber_Poems 3.86 157 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 François 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 waiting"; the swarm attempts to protect the queen. It is a cruel existence. Everyone sacrifices for the sweet honey, except the human hand that harvests it all in a single afternoon.

Blind Huber is about the body, love, and devotion and also about the limits of what can be known and what will forever be unknown. Nick Flynn's bees and keepers—sometimes in a state of magnificent pollen-drunk dizziness—view the world from a striking and daring perspective.
</div>]]> 2002 5 0 false Sat Sep 13 14:26:30 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 18 08:48:46 -0700 2008
To exist wholly in another, seamless,
mirrored. Think of the hive,

at each turn we find ourselves, not
a version, not a replica,
but our whole selves. Love,

you claim, comes close t...more...]]> 31871728 572794 20658 1555973736 9781555973735 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487m/20658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487s/20658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20658.Blind_Huber_Poems 3.86 157 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 François 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 waiting"; the swarm attempts to protect the queen. It is a cruel existence. Everyone sacrifices for the sweet honey, except the human hand that harvests it all in a single afternoon.

Blind Huber is about the body, love, and devotion and also about the limits of what can be known and what will forever be unknown. Nick Flynn's bees and keepers—sometimes in a state of magnificent pollen-drunk dizziness—view the world from a striking and daring perspective.
</div>]]> 2002 1 0 false Thu Oct 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 19:44:54 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 06 14:44:10 -0700 2008 2257688 127289 20658 1555973736 9781555973735 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487m/20658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487s/20658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20658.Blind_Huber_Poems 3.86 157 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 François 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 waiting"; the swarm attempts to protect the queen. It is a cruel existence. Everyone sacrifices for the sweet honey, except the human hand that harvests it all in a single afternoon.

Blind Huber is about the body, love, and devotion and also about the limits of what can be known and what will forever be unknown. Nick Flynn's bees and keepers—sometimes in a state of magnificent pollen-drunk dizziness—view the world from a striking and daring perspective.
</div>]]> 2002 4 0 false Fri Jun 22 11:21:06 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 22 11:22:09 -0700 2007 29976072 1420500 20658 1555973736 9781555973735 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487m/20658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487s/20658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20658.Blind_Huber_Poems 3.86 157 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 François 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 waiting"; the swarm attempts to protect the queen. It is a cruel existence. Everyone sacrifices for the sweet honey, except the human hand that harvests it all in a single afternoon.

Blind Huber is about the body, love, and devotion and also about the limits of what can be known and what will forever be unknown. Nick Flynn's bees and keepers—sometimes in a state of magnificent pollen-drunk dizziness—view the world from a striking and daring perspective.
</div>]]> 2002 3 0 false Tue Aug 12 15:30:28 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 15:31:25 -0700 2008 19998573 665947 20658 1555973736 9781555973735 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487m/20658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487s/20658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20658.Blind_Huber_Poems 3.86 157 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 François 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 waiting"; the swarm attempts to protect the queen. It is a cruel existence. Everyone sacrifices for the sweet honey, except the human hand that harvests it all in a single afternoon.

Blind Huber is about the body, love, and devotion and also about the limits of what can be known and what will forever be unknown. Nick Flynn's bees and keepers—sometimes in a state of magnificent pollen-drunk dizziness—view the world from a striking and daring perspective.
</div>]]> 2002 3 0 false Sat Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 12 08:24:26 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 12 08:25:25 -0700 2008 ]]> 17554535 964275 20658 1555973736 9781555973735 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487m/20658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487s/20658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20658.Blind_Huber_Poems 3.86 157 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 François 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 waiting"; the swarm attempts to protect the queen. It is a cruel existence. Everyone sacrifices for the sweet honey, except the human hand that harvests it all in a single afternoon.

Blind Huber is about the body, love, and devotion and also about the limits of what can be known and what will forever be unknown. Nick Flynn's bees and keepers—sometimes in a state of magnificent pollen-drunk dizziness—view the world from a striking and daring perspective.
</div>]]> 2002 5 0 false Tue Mar 11 18:25:20 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 19 09:24:56 -0700 2008
beautiful beyond words...]]> 34838217 1251999 20658 1555973736 9781555973735 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487m/20658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487s/20658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20658.Blind_Huber_Poems 3.86 157 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 François 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 waiting"; the swarm attempts to protect the queen. It is a cruel existence. Everyone sacrifices for the sweet honey, except the human hand that harvests it all in a single afternoon.

Blind Huber is about the body, love, and devotion and also about the limits of what can be known and what will forever be unknown. Nick Flynn's bees and keepers—sometimes in a state of magnificent pollen-drunk dizziness—view the world from a striking and daring perspective.
</div>]]> 2002 0 0 false Wed Oct 08 14:10:16 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 14:11:51 -0700 2008 Dana

]]> 626794 30920 20658 1555973736 9781555973735 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487m/20658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487s/20658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20658.Blind_Huber_Poems 3.86 157 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 François 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 waiting"; the swarm attempts to protect the queen. It is a cruel existence. Everyone sacrifices for the sweet honey, except the human hand that harvests it all in a single afternoon.

Blind Huber is about the body, love, and devotion and also about the limits of what can be known and what will forever be unknown. Nick Flynn's bees and keepers—sometimes in a state of magnificent pollen-drunk dizziness—view the world from a striking and daring perspective.
</div>]]> 2002 5 0 false Sat Apr 07 22:13:04 -0700 2007 Sat Apr 07 22:13:04 -0700 2007 27854364 439736 20658 1555973736 9781555973735 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487m/20658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487s/20658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20658.Blind_Huber_Poems 3.86 157 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 François 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 waiting"; the swarm attempts to protect the queen. It is a cruel existence. Everyone sacrifices for the sweet honey, except the human hand that harvests it all in a single afternoon.

Blind Huber is about the body, love, and devotion and also about the limits of what can be known and what will forever be unknown. Nick Flynn's bees and keepers—sometimes in a state of magnificent pollen-drunk dizziness—view the world from a striking and daring perspective.
</div>]]> 2002 4 0 false Wed Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 09:16:05 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 07:58:38 -0700 2008 1946633 124687 20658 1555973736 9781555973735 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487m/20658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487s/20658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20658.Blind_Huber_Poems 3.86 157 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 François 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 waiting"; the swarm attempts to protect the queen. It is a cruel existence. Everyone sacrifices for the sweet honey, except the human hand that harvests it all in a single afternoon.

Blind Huber is about the body, love, and devotion and also about the limits of what can be known and what will forever be unknown. Nick Flynn's bees and keepers—sometimes in a state of magnificent pollen-drunk dizziness—view the world from a striking and daring perspective.
</div>]]> 2002 5 0 false Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Jun 13 20:43:16 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 14 07:04:58 -0700 2007 81656033 2919331 20658 1555973736 9781555973735 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487m/20658.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167298487s/20658.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20658.Blind_Huber_Poems 3.86 157 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 François 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 waiting"; the swarm attempts to protect the queen. It is a cruel existence. Everyone sacrifices for the sweet honey, except the human hand that harvests it all in a single afternoon.

Blind Huber is about the body, love, and devotion and also about the limits of what can be known and what will forever be unknown. Nick Flynn's bees and keepers—sometimes in a state of magnificent pollen-drunk dizziness—view the world from a striking and daring perspective.
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