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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."
About the Author
Sylvia, Elizabeth: -
Elizabeth Sylvia was raised on Martha's Vineyard and still lives in coastal Massachusetts. She is the author of None But Witches (2022), winner of the 3 Mile Harbor Press Book Award, and the chapbook My Little Book of Domestic Anxieties (Ballerini Books, 2025), a finalist for the Kari Ann Flickinger Memorial Prize. The daughter of an avowed Francophile, she lived in France as a young woman and continues to visit regularly.
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