{"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSylvia, Elizabeth:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eElizabeth Sylvia was raised on Martha's Vineyard and still lives in coastal Massachusetts. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eNone But Witches\u003c\/i\u003e (2022), winner of the 3 Mile Harbor Press Book Award, and the chapbook \u003ci\u003eMy Little Book of Domestic Anxieties\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"River River Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52127733580050,"sku":"9798992611618","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b28aea63-42a8-43f7-878c-0b8216633003.jpg?v=1773745868","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/scythe-9798992611618","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}