{"product_id":"june-in-eden","title":"June in Eden","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA sharp, darkly funny, and tender debut that exposes the fractures in our language, our technologies, and our attempts to call the world by its right name.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eJune in Eden\u003c\/i\u003e, Rosalie Ruth Moffett leads us through terrains that shift between the mythic and the modern. Sometimes the garden is wild and blooming; other times, the coveted tree is only hiding a cell tower, lungs become ATMs, and prayers travel by text message. This is a book for an age when \"new kinds of war...keep \/ changing the maps,\" and when even small slips--\u003ci\u003epreying\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003epraying\u003c\/i\u003e--reveal the instability of the words we rely on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of the collection lies an obsession with language: its power, its failures, and what remains when it falters. \"Ruth,\" our speaker notes, is \"a kind of compassion \/ nobody wants anymore--the surviving half \/ of the pair of words is ruthless.\" Throughout these poems, dark humor coexists with deep tenderness, reminding us of the human urge to \"love the world \/ we made and all its shadows.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoffett offers a speaker bewildered and awestruck by the world's contradictions--its technological miracles, its medical uncertainties, its imaginative leaps. These poems, equal parts grief and wonder, give us a landscape that from some angles resembles paradise, and from others, something far stranger.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mad River Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":53830855950704,"sku":"9780814253847","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0954\/1304\/3568\/files\/imageloader_73324fc7-0d0a-45e6-b9f2-2f3f7cc7030b.jpg?v=1779728825","url":"https:\/\/aveson.store\/products\/june-in-eden","provider":"Aveson","version":"1.0","type":"link"}