Handing Out Apples in Eden in Bloomington, MN

In this debut collection, poet Malisa Garlieb has produced a book of warm and sometimes startling intimacy that grapples with issues at the core of modern relationships: the fluidity of identity and desire, the intersection of image and reality, the crux where personal and political collide in small acts of allegiance and betrayal. Often employing the lens of myth, art, and fairy tale, she draws us into her poignant personal history, while simultaneously unfolding archetypes. Holding and releasing emotional tension, trilling on the tongue, these poems, like arrows, fly straight to the heart.