The title is drawn from Darwin's "Descent of Man," published in the 1870s. All of the zoological observations are made up. The facts regarding my parents are true.
James Allen Hall on "Inheritance at Corresponding Periods of Life, at Corresponding Seasons of the Year, as Limited by Sex" |
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John Liles, Winner of 2024 Yale Series of Younger Poets
"The judge, prize-winning and critically acclaimed poet Rae Armantrout, has chosen John Liles's manuscript, Bees, and after. This is Armantrout's fourth selection since being named judge of America's longest-running poetry prize, succeeding Carl Phillips. Armantrout says: 'The poems in Bees, and after are dense, sonically gorgeous studies of various natural things and creatures, including light, bees, minerals, shell fish and crabs, insects, and the workings (and failures) of the heart.'"
viaYALE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Katie Peterson on Other Arts
"I find this to be common with poems, which are like my favorite kind of children – give them a job to do, and they'd rather do anything else. But give them nothing to do, and they hate you. A poem ends up being equal parts what you must do and what you want to do, but in a way, with a proportion, inhabiting a mood you can't predict. A map offers a perfect occasion for this, since, like a family portrait, what it leaves in points towards what it leaves out. The poem became about everything the map couldn't record." |
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