{"product_id":"scythe-9798992611618","title":"Scythe","description":"\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Sylvia's second poetry collection \u003ci\u003eScythe\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e River River Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798992611618\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 106","brand":"Elizabeth Sylvia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52239274279093,"sku":"9798992611618","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_23faef26-0d8b-4145-b00c-14480f529247.jpg?v=1770917525","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/scythe-9798992611618","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}