Dead Bees Still Sting: Tales of Life at the Edge of Nature

“Electric, alive, and tender, Cormier's world is one of deep entanglement and ethical implication.How do we live with the natural world in a time when the borders between domestication and wildness are blurred-and how do we grapple with its changes?This book, playful and direct at once, offers a path.”-Jessica J.Lee, author of Dispersals and Two Trees Make a ForestFor readers of Raising Hare and How to Catch a Mole comes a poetic exploration of life at the precarious edge of nature and human settlement. On a small acreage teeming with wild and domestic animals, buzzing with a half-million honeybees, and dotted with fruit trees-including one affectionately named Bill-lives beekeeper-poet Susan Cormier.Circling the farm, an aggressive tangle of forest and blackberry vines thrives, but beyond, the shadow of urban development creeps ever closer.Over five seasons Cormier takes readers through the rhythms of semi-agricultural life, reflecting on the dichotomy between beauty and grief, loss a