Scythe Book cover type:Paperback ‘When was the last time

‘When was the last time you read something so essential and so fundamental that it was

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Scythe Book cover type:Paperback ‘When was the last timeElizabeth Sylvia's second poetry collection Scythe limns the verdant space of the cultivated gardenfrom Versailles to Massachusettswhile 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 escapeasking who can fly,