{"product_id":"buzz-words-isbn-9781101908266","title":"Buzz Words","description":"\u003cb\u003eA unique hardcover anthology of poems—from around the world and through the ages—that celebrates the gloriously diverse insect world. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGiven that insects vastly outnumber us, it is no surprise that many cultures have long and rich traditions of verse about our tiny fellow creatures. Tang Dynasty poets in China and the haiku masters of Japan composed thousands of works in praise of crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas, moths, and butterflies, as well as such humbler bugs as houseflies, fleas, and mosquitoes. In the West, poems about insects date back to the ancient Greeks and appear frequently in Europe from the Elizabethan period onward. The brilliant poets collected here range far and wide in time and place, including Tu Fu, John Donne, Kobayashi Issa, William Wordsworth, Victor Hugo, Ivan Turgenev, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Robert Frost, E. E. Cummings, Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes, Pablo Neruda, Mary Oliver, Xi Chuan, and Kevin Young. Bees, butterflies, and beetles, cockroaches and caterpillars, fireflies and dragonflies, ladybugs and glowworms—the miniature beings that adorn these pages are as varied as the poetic talents that celebrate them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eINSECTARIUM\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ELIZABETH BISHOP Sleeping on the Ceiling\u003cbr\u003e DAVID BUDBILL Bugs in a Bowl \u003cbr\u003e JOHN CLARE Insects \u003cbr\u003e HARRYETTE MULLEN From \u003ci\u003eUrban Tumbleweed \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ELISE PASCHEN Miss Spider’s Guests\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM ROSCOE The Butterfly’s Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast \u003cbr\u003e ARTHUR SZE Windows and Mirrors \u003cbr\u003e IVAN TURGENEV The Insect \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWORKERS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e KURT BROWN Bombing the Swarm \u003cbr\u003e XI CHUAN The Ant’s Plunder \u003cbr\u003e CAROL ANN DUFFY Virgil’s Bees \u003cbr\u003e PAUL VALÉRY The Bee \u003cbr\u003e RALPH WALDO EMERSON The HumbleBee\u003cbr\u003e NICK FLYNN Workers (Attendants) \u003cbr\u003e ROSS GAY Ode to the Beekeeper \u003cbr\u003e JANE HIRSHFIELD Like an Ant Carrying Her Bits of Leaf or Sand \u003cbr\u003e EDWARD LEAR “There was an Old Man in a tree”\u003cbr\u003e JOSEPH O. LEGASPI Ants\u003cbr\u003e MARK PAJAK Still Life \u003cbr\u003e MAY SWENSON A Couple \u003cbr\u003e JEAN TOOMER Beehive \u003cbr\u003e CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Eros and the Bee \u003cbr\u003e ABIGAIL WENDER Fable \u003cbr\u003e JAMES WRIGHT The First Days\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSINGERS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e MARILYN CHIN The Cricket \u003cbr\u003e PHILIP FRENEAU To a CatyDid\u003cbr\u003e RIGOBERTO GONZÁLEZ Cicadas \u003cbr\u003e OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES To an Insect \u003cbr\u003e LEIGH HUNT To the Grasshopper and the Cricket\u003cbr\u003e KOBAYASHI ISSA Haiku\u003cbr\u003e JOHN KEATS On the Grasshopper and Cricket \u003cbr\u003e JULIET S. KONO “Their caps blown off ” \u003cbr\u003e VACHEL LINDSAY Crickets on a Strike\u003cbr\u003e MELEAGER To the Cicada \u003cbr\u003e THOMAS MOORE Odes of Anacreon: Ode XXXIV\u003cbr\u003e JAMES TATE Cricket Cricket \u003cbr\u003e CELIA THAXTER Foreboding \u003cbr\u003e RICHARD WILBUR Cicadas \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSPARKLERS AND SWOOPERS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e FIONA BENSON Blue Ghost Firefly\u003cbr\u003e LOUISE BOGAN The Dragonfly\u003cbr\u003e OJIBWE Chant to the FireFly\u003cbr\u003e W. H. DAVIES The Dragonfly\u003cbr\u003e VICTOR HUGO The Dragonfly\u003cbr\u003e STANLEY KUNITZ The Dragonfly\u003cbr\u003e ILYSE KUSNETZ Bleach \u003cbr\u003e D. H. LAWRENCE Fireflies in the Corn\u003cbr\u003e ANDREW MARVELL The Mower to the Glow-Worms\u003cbr\u003e HOWARD NEMEROV The Dragonfly\u003cbr\u003e FRANK ORMSBY Fireflies \u003cbr\u003e LEE SLONIMSKY Dragonflies in Love\u003cbr\u003e TU FU Watching Fireflies\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGLIDERS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The Butterfly\u003cbr\u003e LINDA HOGAN Season of the Butterflies \u003cbr\u003e GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS “All as that moth” \u003cbr\u003e RANJIT HOSKOTE Moth\u003cbr\u003e DORA MALECH Little Offer \u003cbr\u003e EDWIN MARKHAM The Night Moths \u003cbr\u003e SHARON OLDS Monarchs \u003cbr\u003e MARY OLIVER Great Moth Comes from His Papery Cage \u003cbr\u003e CARL PHILLIPS Luna Moth \u003cbr\u003e FREDERICK SEIDEL White Butterflies \u003cbr\u003e JANE SHORE A Luna Moth \u003cbr\u003e PAGE HILL STARZINGER Coronal \u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM WORDSWORTH To a Butterfly\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLEAPERS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e E. E. CUMMINGS rpophessagr\u003cbr\u003e ELLA DUFFY Mantis \u003cbr\u003e KIMIKO HAHN Reckless Sonnet #2 \u003cbr\u003e YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA The Seventeen-Year Locust \u003cbr\u003e RICHARD LOVELACE The Grasshopper \u003cbr\u003e JAMES MERRRILL The Locusts \u003cbr\u003e RAJIV MOHABIR Cryptic Mimicry\u003cbr\u003e OGDEN NASH The Praying Mantis \u003cbr\u003e MANOHAR SHETTY Praying Mantis\u003cbr\u003e ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON The Grasshopper\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWEAVERS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ROSE TERRY COOKE Arachne \u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM EMPSON Arachne \u003cbr\u003e CAROL FROST Web-Making\u003cbr\u003e EMILY DICKINSON “A Spider sewed at Night”\u003cbr\u003e ROBERT FROST Design \u003cbr\u003e WELDON KEES What the Spider Heard \u003cbr\u003e VACHEL LINDSAY The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly\u003cbr\u003e ROBERT LOWELL Mr. Edwards and the Spider \u003cbr\u003e MARY RUEFLE Spider \u003cbr\u003e TOM SLEIGH In Which a Spider Weaves a Web on My Computer Screen\u003cbr\u003e GERALD STERN Spider\u003cbr\u003e WALT WHITMAN A Noiseless Patient Spider\u003cbr\u003e RICHARD WRIGHT Haiku \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCRAWLERS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHARLES BUKOWSKI Cockroach\u003cbr\u003e NINA CASSIAN The Caterpillar \u003cbr\u003e TOI DERRICOTTE New Orleans Palmetto Bug\u003cbr\u003e CORNELIUS EADY The Roach \u003cbr\u003e DIANE FAHEY Cockroach \u003cbr\u003e ROBERT GRAVES The Caterpillar\u003cbr\u003e LINDA GREGG The Grub \u003cbr\u003e FADY JOUDAH The Very Hungry Caterpillar\u003cbr\u003e MIHAELA MOSCALIUC Centipede \u003cbr\u003e CHRISTINA ROSSETTI The Caterpillar\u003cbr\u003e MURIEL RUKEYSER St. Roach \u003cbr\u003e ROBERT W. SERVICE Death of a Cockroach\u003cbr\u003e ANNE SEXTON Cockroach \u003cbr\u003e CHARLES SIMIC Cockroach \u003cbr\u003e MICHAEL WATERS Lord Cockroach \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSTINGERS, BITERS, AND SUCKERS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e DAVID BAKER Mosquitoes \u003cbr\u003e JILL BIALOSKY By the Pool \u003cbr\u003e JOHN DONNE The Flea \u003cbr\u003e RICHARD EBERHART Gnat on My Paper\u003cbr\u003e PABLO NERUDA “Fleas interest me so much” \u003cbr\u003e AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL Mosquitoes\u003cbr\u003e JOSÉ EMILIO PACHECO Mosquitoes \u003cbr\u003e MICHAEL SCHMIDT Wasps’ Nest \u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM SHARP The Wasp \u003cbr\u003e MONICA SOK Ask the Locals \u003cbr\u003e EDWARD TAYLOR Upon a Wasp Child With Cold \u003cbr\u003e BRIAN TURNER Aedes Aegypti \u003cbr\u003e KEVIN YOUNG Sweet Blood \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePESTS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ELLEN BASS Flies \u003cbr\u003e GABRIELLE BATES Fruit Flies\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM BLAKE The Fly \u003cbr\u003e FABIÁN CASAS The Horsefly\u003cbr\u003e IMTIAZ DHARKER The Host \u003cbr\u003e WALTER DE LA MARE The Fly \u003cbr\u003e EMILY DICKINSON “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died—” \u003cbr\u003e ARACELIS GIRMAY luam \u0026amp; the flies\u003cbr\u003e TERRANCE HAYES American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin\u003cbr\u003e ROBERT HERSHON Restless in Spring\u003cbr\u003e TED HUGHES Buzz in the Window \u003cbr\u003e ANN INOSHITA Feva \u003cbr\u003e GALWAY KINNELL The Fly\u003cbr\u003e ANTONIO MACHADO Flies \u003cbr\u003e THOMAS MACKELLAR To a Troublesome Fly \u003cbr\u003e W. S. MERWIN The Rose Beetle \u003cbr\u003e PAUL MULDOON Clegs and Midges \u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM OLDYS On a Fly Drinking Out of His Cup \u003cbr\u003e ALICE OSWALD Flies\u003cbr\u003e YANG WANLI Cold Fly\u003cbr\u003e  KIMIKO HAHN is the author of ten books of poems, including \u003ci\u003eForeign Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e (2020). Hahn is a distinguished professor in the MFA program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College, City University of New York. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN\/Voelcker Award for Poetry, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and is a former president of the Poetry Society of America. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHAROLD SCHECHTER is a professor emeritus of American literature and culture at Queens College, City University of New York, and the author of several mystery novels featuring Edgar Allan Poe, as well as coeditor of three previous Everyman's Library Pocket Poet volumes. He lives in New York City.FOREWORD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScientists estimate that, at any time, there are ten quintillion insects on the earth – or, to put the figure in more comprehensible terms, more than 200 million insects for every human being. This is a sobering statistic to contemplate for the legions who share the sentiment expressed in the Book of Leviticus: “All flying insects that creep on all fours shall be an abomination to you.” It is, however, a useful reminder of the extent to which our world is made up of such creatures. And since (to quote Edward Hirsch’s \u003ci\u003eA Poet’s Glossary\u003c\/i\u003e), “the natural world has been one of the recurring subjects of poetry, frequently the primary one, in every age and every country,” it is no surprise that there is a rich body of verse on the creeping, scuttling, stinging things – Hexapoda, to use the proper entomological term – with which we share our planet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat insects can serve as a suitable subject for poetry would come as no surprise to any child familiar with the various nursery rhymes about lady bugs, glowworms, and spiders (nitpickers like to point out that,strictly speaking, spiders aren’t bugs, but try telling that to Little Miss Muffet). Cultures other than our own have centuries-old traditions of insect verse. In China –where noblewomen of the Tang dynasty kept crickets in gold cages to serenade them at night – countless songs were written in praise of these “insect musicians.” The haiku masters of Japan similarly composed thousands of poems not only about crickets but also about grasshoppers, cicadas, firefl ies, dragonflies, and butterflies,along with such less prepossessing bugs as houseflies, fleas, and mosquitoes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the West, poems about insects date back t othe ancient Greek collection known as the Garland, compiled by the poet anthologist Meleager. In later centuries, insects feature so frequently in British works from the Elizabethan period onward that scholars have produced entire entomological studies of the literature (most notably, Pearl Faulkner Eddy’s “Insects in English Poetry,” subtitled “Bugs in Books,” a delightful forty-page survey that appeared in two successive issues of \u003ci\u003eThe Scientific Monthly \u003c\/i\u003ein 1931). Insects appear in American literature beginning with the work of Philip Freneau – aka “The Father of American Poetry”– and extending to the sequence of bee poems in Sylvia Plath’s \u003ci\u003eAriel\u003c\/i\u003e and up to the present moment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough his métier was prose, not poetry, the great French entomologist, Jean Henri Fabre, wrote so brilliantly on his subject that Victor Hugo dubbed him the “Homer of Insects” and Provençal poet Frédéric Mistral campaigned for his nomination for the 1911 Nobel Prize in literature. Addressing the reader in his 1918 book, \u003ci\u003eThe Life and Love of the Insect\u003c\/i\u003e, Fabre asks, “What is the use of this history, what the use of all this minute research?” and responds with characteristic wit and eloquence: “I well know that it will not produce a fall in the price of pepper, a rise in that of crates of rotten cabbages, or other serious events of this kind, which cause fleets to be manned and set people face to face intent upon one another’s extermination. The insect does not aim at so much glory. It confines itself to showing us life in the inexhaustible variety of its manifestations; it helps us decipher in some small measure the obscurest book of all, the book of ourselves.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough the poems in this volume vary widely inregard to style, tone, genre, and theme, that recognition of the insect’s significance to our lives informs them all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Kimiko Hahn and Harold Schechter","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304908050661,"sku":"NP9781101908266","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781101908266.jpg?v=1767723234","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/buzz-words-isbn-9781101908266","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}