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Scythe
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Publisher Price: $20.00
Publisher: River River Books
Published: Feb 24 2026
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.06 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
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.
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