Scythe
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River River Books
Scythe
$20.00
Sale price
$20.00
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Elizabeth Sylvia's second poetry collection Scythe limns the verdant space of the cultivated garden--from Versailles to Massachusetts--while keenly tracing the reality of rising environmental heat and the cost of human flourishing. Alongside the comic-tragic figure of Marie Antoinette and the sugar-seeking bees, the speaker engages French colonialism, the extractive sugarcane trade, gendered labor, and the language of flight and escape--asking who can fly, and who can escape. A deeply and greenly, tender collection, rife with the acknowledgement that "There is much damage in cake, / ambrosial and tender in my mouth."
Book Details
- Publisher:
- River River Books
- ISBN:
- 9798992611618
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 106
- Authors:
- Elizabeth Sylvia
- Published Date:
- 2026-02-24
- Language:
- English
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Inventive and highly crafted collection of poems that intertwine contemporary environmentalism in a dialogue with Marie Antoinette.