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Part I

· This book is a collection of poetry with each section containing a handful of poems.

· In Part I, the first poem is Garden of Eden.

· The narrator greatly misses “the Garden of Eden on Montague Street” (5).

· The narrator rarely shopped here but enjoyed her heavy load of delicious pastries and fresh produce.

· The memories of shopping along this street remind the narrator of Brooklyn and being in her thirties.

· The narrator reflects on the fact that everyone she knew at the time was living a similar life to her – “each ashamed for the same things: innocence and privacy” (5).

· As the narrator would walk home, she would do mental math on how much she had spent and it would suddenly hit her – “the known sun setting on the dawning century” (5).

· The second poem is entitled The Angels.

· The Angels are described as “grizzled” and in “leather biker...

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