Between Paradise & Earth: Eve Poems

Edited by Nomi Stone & Luke Hankins

A 2022 Foreword INDIES Awards finalist

paper  /  154 pp.  /  $18.00 Orison Books ISBN: 978-1-949039-39-9 Publication date: April 4, 2023 Distributed to the trade by Itasca Books 952-223-8373 / orders@itascabooks.com

ABOUT  

The 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 for examining the human condition. In these poems, Eve loves, grieves, rages, and proves a perennially relevant figure in our contemporary mythos.

PRAISE

"Stone and Hankins prove that Eve remains a perennial poetic inspiration in this strong selection."

—Publishers Weekly

"Between Paradise and Earth: Eve Poems [...] offers an extended meditation on the Abrahamic religious traditions’ originary female figure. Editors Nomi Stone and Luke Hankins have amassed an array of lyrical inquiries into this 'first' woman and her relationship to our understanding of gender and its intersection with other identities such as race and class." —Poets & Writers

"In Between Par­adise & Earth: Eve Poems, over sev­en­ty poets fol­low lyric threads through the sto­ry of this foun­da­tion­al fig­ure, demonstrat­ing her contin­ued relevance. Or, rather, her sto­ries, plur­al—for not only do these poems go far beyond Gen­e­sis and its com­men­taries, they also rec­og­nize that Eve’s life is like any human’s: not a sin­gle nar­ra­tive, but many."

—Nan Cohen, Jewish Book Council

"This anthology features some famous names such as Lucille Clifton, Rita Dove, Ada Limón, and Toni Morrison, and their work is exemplary. It’s the lesser known but remarkably talented poets, however, who repeatedly caught my eye."

—Brian Volck, "Close Reading"

CONTRIBUTORS  

George Abraham Kazim Ali Hala Alyan Justice Ameer Grace Bauer Jill Peláez Baumgaertner Bruce Beasley Jericho Brown

Nickole Brown Jennifer Bullis Nicole Callihan

Nancy Naomi Carlson Scott Chalupa Marianne Chan Leila Chatti Lucille Clifton Ama Codjoe Andrea Cohen Diana Cole William Coleman Michael Dechane Lynn Domina Laura Donnelly Rita Dove Amy Dryansky Ansel Elkins Annie Finch Amy Fleury Diamond Forde Rebecca Morgan Frank John Fry Ona Gritz francine j. harris Ronnie Hess Katherine Hoerth Marie Howe Romana Iorga Jessica Jacobs Sneha Subramanian Kanta Mackenzie Kozak Talley V. Kayser Sally Rosen Kindred Peter Kline Aviya Kushner Danusha Laméris Priscilla Lee Ada Limón dawn lonsinger Raymond Luczak J. Michael Martinez Mary B. Moore Toni Morrison Simone Muench Frank Paino Emilia Phillips Ruben Quesada Khalisa Rae Victoria Redel Barbara Jane Reyes Carly Sachs Brooke Sahni Nicholas Samaras Jane Seitel Courtney Sender Jennifer Sperry Steinorth Alina Stefanescu Laura Lee Washburn Anna Rose Welch Jeanne Wagner Jackie K. White