In This Dis­tance exam­ines the rela­tion­ship between dis­tance and desire, the erot­ic and the ecsta­t­ic, plea­sure and par­adise. Esther Per­el, Audre Lorde and the bib­li­cal fig­ure of Eve co-exist in this col­lec­tion, offer­ing their real and imag­ined insight as the speak­er grap­ples with ques­tions such as: do we need dis­tance in order to main­tain desire? Where is par­adise? What con­sti­tutes an Eden?