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1 online resource (x, 73 pages) |
| Series |
Phoenix poets |
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Phoenix poets.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; One: Reflecting Pool; After the Equinox; Island of Opposites; A Cradle; Mi Ritrovai; Reflecting Pool; The Crossing, 1969: USS United States; After the Storm; The Wild Turkeys; Today's Public Garden; Short Shrift; Two: How I Fell; How I Fell & How It Felt; Day of Needs; The Body Is a Disenchanting Thing; Words; What Is It Like to Be a Bat?; Mortal Coil; In the Nights of Cacophony; High Time; Bruise; Ode; After Words; Facing the Judge, at the Altar; I Know Why You Went to Memphis, Uh Huh; Cultural Instructions: Spring; Who's Counting?; Three: Counter-Amores |
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Counter-Amores I.5Counter-Amores I.3; Counter-Amores I.2; Counter-Amores I.7; Counter-Amores I.14; Counter-Amores III. 14; Counter-Amores III. 5; Counter-Amores II. 1; Counter-Amores II. 16; Counter-Amores I.1; What She Thought; Counter-Amores III. 15; Notes |
| Summary |
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 d |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Love poetry, American -- 21st century
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American poetry -- 21st century.
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FICTION -- General.
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American poetry.
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Love poetry, American.
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| Genre/Form |
poetry.
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Love poetry.
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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Love poetry.
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Poésie.
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Poésie d'amour.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226109299 |
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0226109291 |
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1283268000 |
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9781283268004 |
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