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Counter-Amores

Counter-Amores

Clarvoe, Jennifer

Paperback

Series: Phoenix Poets

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0226109283
ISBN13: 9780226109282
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Oct 31 2011
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

Jennifer Clarvoe's second book, Counter-Amores, wrestles with and against love. The poems in the title series talk back to Ovid's Amores, and, in talking back, take charge, take delight, and take revenge. They suggest that we discover what we love by fighting, by bringing our angry, hungry, imperfect selves into the battle. Like a man who shouts for the echo back from a cliff, or the scientist who teaches her parrot to say, I love you, or the philosopher who wonders what it is like to be a bat, or Temple Grandin's lucid imaginings of the last moments of cattle destined for slaughter, the speakers in these poems seek to find themselves in relation to an ever-widening circle of unknowable others. Yearning for the sweet cool hum of fridge and fluorescent that sang 'home, ' we're as likely to find fifty-seven clicks and flickering channels pitched to the galaxy. Song itself becomes a site for gorgeous struggle, just as bella means both beautiful and wars.

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