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Adam in the Garden

AE Hines
4.57/5 (14 ratings)
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In Adam in the Garden, AE Hines lyrically examines the thresholds we cross: from childhood to adulthood, youth to old age, from rejection to self-acceptance. Using personal narrative and persona, and with a variety of forms, these poems are rich in both eros and pathos as the poet explores queer love and joy that is hard won. Set in the garden of the body, our fragile earth, and the biblical Eden, these poems conspire to reveal the extraordinary hidden in every moment

Early Reviews:

With Adam in the Garden, AE Hines dares to imagine a new Eden, as his
speaker finds himself “middle-aged and queer,” in poems that weave sound
and image into tightly crafted narratives. Whether confronting betrayal
and loss, sex and desire, or even environmental collapse, threads of hope
and gratitude run throughout these verses, as does the speaker’s anxiety
about the fragility of what binds. “Perhaps you too have done this,” he asks,
“Found yourself awake on the edge // of so much happiness you fear fate
/ might intervene?” In plain-spoken language, Hines transforms simple,
everyday acts into tender and moving lyrics, offering surprising journeys
and closing lines that continue to inspire. We find a poet willing to risk
sentimentality without collapsing into sentiment. A seeker willing to risk
blasphemy in his personal search for truth. — Dorianne Laux, author of Life on Earth

AE Hines keeps giving us what we want as readers––to fall through the
holes of the everyday into deeper meaning. Playful and adept in their
workings, these poems are portals to hidden rooms, fields, galaxies. Even
if they begin with pigeon, airplane, beloved, we find ourselves led to the
Garden of All Things, the primordial place of loss and desire, taking our
own bite of the apple. — Danusha Laméris, author of Bonfire Opera

AE Hines is a poet of violence, wit, and the brutish assumptions of fidelity.
He has a gift for describing the natural world in this latter-day garden:
the pigeon’s “steel / petticoat and gray patrician gown”; the tulip “boozy
and voluptuous”; “a dawn congregation / of ravens” in snow. Hines
understands that “hope can be given away,” a truth part openness, part
diminishment; Adam in the Garden is a subtle, skillful collection. — Randall Mann, author of Deal: New and Selected

The world is fading. The Father is fading. AE Hines’s Adam in the Garden
is here to herald a new age where we “shoo/that sweet-talking serpent,”
accepting “nothing untrue,” taking the tremulous steps of adoption,
carrying a new vision for the son of men across a million unknown dangers.
To build and name a new world, we each must, like Adam, recall “all the
men/[we’ve] been” and push beyond what we have known, “edging close/
to discovery.” Hines will leave you longing for a paradise regained. — J.D. Isip, author of Kissing the Wound
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
pages
Publication:
2024
Publisher:
Charlotte Lit Press
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1960558072
ISBN13:
9781960558077
kindle Asin:
1960558072

Adam in the Garden

AE Hines
4.57/5 (14 ratings)
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In Adam in the Garden, AE Hines lyrically examines the thresholds we cross: from childhood to adulthood, youth to old age, from rejection to self-acceptance. Using personal narrative and persona, and with a variety of forms, these poems are rich in both eros and pathos as the poet explores queer love and joy that is hard won. Set in the garden of the body, our fragile earth, and the biblical Eden, these poems conspire to reveal the extraordinary hidden in every moment

Early Reviews:

With Adam in the Garden, AE Hines dares to imagine a new Eden, as his
speaker finds himself “middle-aged and queer,” in poems that weave sound
and image into tightly crafted narratives. Whether confronting betrayal
and loss, sex and desire, or even environmental collapse, threads of hope
and gratitude run throughout these verses, as does the speaker’s anxiety
about the fragility of what binds. “Perhaps you too have done this,” he asks,
“Found yourself awake on the edge // of so much happiness you fear fate
/ might intervene?” In plain-spoken language, Hines transforms simple,
everyday acts into tender and moving lyrics, offering surprising journeys
and closing lines that continue to inspire. We find a poet willing to risk
sentimentality without collapsing into sentiment. A seeker willing to risk
blasphemy in his personal search for truth. — Dorianne Laux, author of Life on Earth

AE Hines keeps giving us what we want as readers––to fall through the
holes of the everyday into deeper meaning. Playful and adept in their
workings, these poems are portals to hidden rooms, fields, galaxies. Even
if they begin with pigeon, airplane, beloved, we find ourselves led to the
Garden of All Things, the primordial place of loss and desire, taking our
own bite of the apple. — Danusha Laméris, author of Bonfire Opera

AE Hines is a poet of violence, wit, and the brutish assumptions of fidelity.
He has a gift for describing the natural world in this latter-day garden:
the pigeon’s “steel / petticoat and gray patrician gown”; the tulip “boozy
and voluptuous”; “a dawn congregation / of ravens” in snow. Hines
understands that “hope can be given away,” a truth part openness, part
diminishment; Adam in the Garden is a subtle, skillful collection. — Randall Mann, author of Deal: New and Selected

The world is fading. The Father is fading. AE Hines’s Adam in the Garden
is here to herald a new age where we “shoo/that sweet-talking serpent,”
accepting “nothing untrue,” taking the tremulous steps of adoption,
carrying a new vision for the son of men across a million unknown dangers.
To build and name a new world, we each must, like Adam, recall “all the
men/[we’ve] been” and push beyond what we have known, “edging close/
to discovery.” Hines will leave you longing for a paradise regained. — J.D. Isip, author of Kissing the Wound
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
pages
Publication:
2024
Publisher:
Charlotte Lit Press
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1960558072
ISBN13:
9781960558077
kindle Asin:
1960558072

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