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Eden by Jon D. Lee

Name: Eden by Jon D. Lee
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What kind of poetry do you get when a truly capacious imagination, in tandem with an acutely exacting lyric intelligence, checks and rechecks itself as it bears expanding witness to egregious transgression and widespread suffering? The kind of poetry intensely alert to what Geoffrey Hill has called “the tongue’s atrocities.” The language by turns of phrase aware of its proclivity for pliant collusion with cruelty, and torqued to recoil against it. And in so doing a heartfelt exemplar of honest indignation. In Jon D. Lee’s Eden, the furies and felicities are a steadfast record of poetic vigilance.

–George Kalogeris, author of Winthropos

This is a book for all time. Steeped in history and literature, rooted in human ache and epiphany. It’s intelligent and urgent. Inherited and wildly original. Jon D. Lee almost recreates English to tell the story of where we’ve come from—“an ecstasy of suffering” and where we might be going, toward what “re-envisioned grace,” knowing full well that “the end is not the end is not the end.”

–Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, author of The Unfolding and host of The Poetic Path

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Eden

by Jon D. Lee

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Eden is a book-length conversation with John Milton and the world he inhabited and envisioned in Paradise Lost, especially as that world is held up against the more complex realities of human existence. Drawing from history, art, literature, and science, and written in the blank verse Milton favored for his epic poems, Eden challenges us to consider who we are and what we might become if we fail to learn from the past. #poetry #history #environment #humanity #art #epic #FinishingLinePress #ContemporaryPoetry #PoetryLovers #NewPoetry #PoetryChapbook

Jon D. Lee is the author of four previous books, including IN/DESIDERATO and An Epidemic of Rumors: How Stories Shape Our Perceptions of Disease. His poems and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Narrative, Sugar House Review, Sierra Nevada Review, The Writer’s Chronicle, One, The Laurel Review, and The Inflectionist Review. He has an MFA in Poetry and a PhD in Folklore. Lee teaches at Suffolk University, where he also serves as Director of the annual David Ferry/Ellen LaForge Prize for Poetry and Translation. Visit jondlee.com.