Scythe

By: Sylvia, Elizabeth

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."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GGVPGX2V
• ISBN13: 9798992611618
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: River River Books
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 8.0"