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A sharp, darkly funny, and tender debut that exposes the fractures in our language, our technologies, and our attempts to call the world by its right name.

In June in Eden, Rosalie Ruth Moffett leads us through terrains that shift between the mythic and the modern. Sometimes the garden is wild and blooming; other times, the coveted tree is only hiding a cell tower, lungs become ATMs, and prayers travel by text message. This is a book for an age when "new kinds of war...keep / changing the maps," and when even small slips--preying or praying--reveal the instability of the words we rely on.

At the heart of the collection lies an obsession with language: its power, its failures, and what remains when it falters. "Ruth," our speaker notes, is "a kind of compassion / nobody wants anymore--the surviving half / of the pair of words is ruthless." Throughout these poems, dark humor coexists with deep tenderness, reminding us of the human urge to "love the world / we made and all its shadows.

Moffett offers a speaker bewildered and awestruck by the world's contradictions--its technological miracles, its medical uncertainties, its imaginative leaps. These poems, equal parts grief and wonder, give us a landscape that from some angles resembles paradise, and from others, something far stranger.