Counter-Amores

ISBN-13: 9780226109282 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 88 str.

Jennifer Clarvoe

Opis

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. "