Blind Huber: Poems by Flynn, Nick
Blind Huber: Poems by Flynn, Nick

Blind Huber: Poems

Award-winning poet Nick Flynn takes readers into the dangerous and irresistible center of the hiveI sit in...
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Author: Nick Flynn
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Blind Huber: Poems by Flynn, Nick

Blind Huber: Poems

$37.55
Blind Huber: Poems by Flynn, Nick

Blind Huber: Poems

$37.55
Author: Nick Flynn
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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 Fran 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 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.



Author: Nick Flynn
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 10/01/2002
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 6.94h x 5.02w x 0.33d
ISBN: 9781555973735


Award: Massachusetts Book Award (MassBook) - Honor Book


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/23/2002 pg. 69
Booklist 10/01/2002 pg. 297
Library Journal 11/01/2002 pg. 94

About the Author

Nick Flynn's first collection of poems, Some Ether, received numerous awards, including the 1999 "Discovery" / The Nation Award and the 1999 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, as well as several other prizes and honors. He is currently working on a memoir about his father. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.




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