{"product_id":"june-in-eden-paperback-1","title":"June in Eden - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRosalie Moffett\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSometimes \u003ci\u003eJune in Eden \u003c\/i\u003eoccupies a garden in a wild landscape. Other times, we're given a terrain where the coveted tree is one that hides a cell tower, where lungs are likened to ATMs and prayers are sent via text message. Rosalie Ruth Moffett's debut collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eJune in Eden, \u003c\/i\u003equestions the human task of naming in a time where there are \"new kinds of war that keep \/ changing the maps,\" where little mistakes-\u003ci\u003epreying\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003epraying\u003c\/i\u003e, for instance-are easily made. The heart of this book is an obsession with language, its slippages and power, what to do when faced with the loss of it. \"Ruth,\" says our speaker, is \"a kind of compassion \/ nobody wants anymore-the surviving half \/ of the pair of words is \u003ci\u003eruthless\u003c\/i\u003e.\" There is, throughout this collection, a dark humor, but one that belies a tenderness or wonder, our human need to \"love the world \/ we made and all its shadows.\"\u003cbr\u003e Rosalie Moffett's \u003ci\u003eJune in Eden\u003c\/i\u003e gives us a speaker bewildered by and in awe of the world: both the miracles \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e failures of technology, medicine, and imagination. These darkly humorous poems are works of grief and wonder and give us a landscape that looks, from some angles, like paradise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRosalie Moffett has been published in \u003ci\u003ePloughshares, The Kenyon Review, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Tin\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHouse\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the director of a high school writing center in Athens, Georgia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 64\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47350457270521,"sku":"9780814253847","price":20.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/bEZRVHpvL2xOTXhQM3RmT1d0dHF3dz09_0dbf1c19-8519-412f-8ff3-23400084ce44.webp?v=1769786351","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/june-in-eden-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}