Between Paradise & Earth: Eve Poems Torrey Peters and both historic and contemporary

and both historic and contemporary photography

Rena Priest's desire for a pair of five-hundred-dollar cowboy boots spurs a reckoning with her childhood on the rez and the fraught history of her hometown

Moira Jean must enter into a bargain with the Lord to save her friends - and fast

teaching us the grand contingency of life together on earth

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Between Paradise & Earth: Eve Poems Torrey Peters and both historic and contemporaryThe recent and contemporary poems about the biblical figure Eve gathered in this anthology refuse given narratives. Here, poets of diverse backgrounds and traditions conjure a heterogeneous concert of Eves to reckon with desire, blame, power, gender, the body, race, politics, religion, knowledge, violence, and time. She becomes a door for dreaming of origins, for considering naming and language, for challenging assumptions and structures of power, and