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- 2011-10-31
- ISBN
- 9780226109282
- EAN
- 9780226109282
- Book Title
- Counter-Amores
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Genre
- Poetry
- Topic
- General, American / General
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 4.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 88 Pages
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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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University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226109283
ISBN-13
9780226109282
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Counter-Amores
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, American / General
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
88 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
4.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Ps3553.L3444c68 2011
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Praise for Invisible Tender "The textures of Invisible Tender --the edgy shimmer of quartz, the cool vulnerability of silk--are exhilarating. Clarvoe's canny perspectives, glistening details, and unnerving surprises are a constant delight. Her book places her at once in the starry company of poets like Elizabeth Bishop and May Swenson. I am moved and thrilled to know, here is the real thing, a poet." --J. D. McClatchy, Praise for Invisible Tender "The textures of Invisible Tender -the edgy shimmer of quartz, the cool vulnerability of silk-are exhilarating. Clarvoe's canny perspectives, glistening details, and unnerving surprises are a constant delight. Her book places her at once in the starry company of poets like Elizabeth Bishop and May Swenson. I am moved and thrilled to know, here is the real thing, a poet." -J. D. McClatchy, "To counter Ovid's Amores is to counter parody, and Jennifer Clarvoe drafts her Sturm brilliantly, probably laughing all the way to the Black Sea. And yet love is not countenanced by others here. It turns on its own contours, bruised, amused. Self-mocking? Most Ovidian."-Judith Hall, California Institute of Technology, Praise for Invisible Tender "The textures of Invisible Tender -the edgy shimmer of quartz, the cool vulnerability of silk-are exhilarating. Clarvoe's canny perspectives, glistening details, and unnerving surprises are a constant delight. Her book places her at once in the starry company of poets like Elizabeth Bishop and May Swenson. I am moved and thrilled to know, here is the real thing, a poet." -J. D. McClatchy , "Delight, alarm, and controlled delirium: that's the effect of Jennifer Clarvoe's simultaneously centripetal and centrifugal poems. Sense explodes out of her tightly contained, rhymed, punning, and allusive stanzas. A higher sense, and a deeper sense, than our dailiness allows, as she reminds us that "'silly,' / because it takes us past the bounds of reason, / comes from Seele , comes from the word for soul.'", "To counter Ovid's Amores is to counter parody, and Jennifer Clarvoe drafts her Sturm brilliantly, probably laughing all the way to the Black Sea. And yet love is not countenanced by others here. It turns on its own contours, bruised, amused. Self-mocking? Most Ovidian."--Judith Hall, California Institute of Technology, "To counter Ovid's Amores is to counter parody, and Jennifer Clarvoe drafts her Sturm brilliantly, probably laughing all the way to the Black Sea. And yet love is not countenanced by others here. It turns on its own contours, bruised, amused. Self-mocking? Most Ovidian."-Judith Hall, California Institute of Technology , Praise for Invisible Tender "The textures of Invisible Tender --the edgy shimmer of quartz, the cool vulnerability of silk--are exhilarating. Clarvoe's canny perspectives, glistening details, and unnerving surprises are a constant delight. Her book places her at once in the starry company of poets like Elizabeth Bishop and May Swenson. I am moved and thrilled to know, here is the real thing, a poet." --J. D. McClatchy , "Delight, alarm, and controlled delirium: that's the effect of Jennifer Clarvoe's simultaneously centripetal and centrifugal poems. Sense explodes out of her tightly contained, rhymed, punning, and allusive stanzas. A higher sense, and a deeper sense, than our dailiness allows, as she reminds us that "'silly,' / because it takes us past the bounds of reason, / comes from Seele , comes from the word for soul.'"-Rosanna Warren, Boston University, "To counter Ovid's Amores is to counter parody, and Jennifer Clarvoe drafts her Sturm brilliantly, probably laughing all the way to the Black Sea. And yet love is not countenanced by others here. It turns on its own contours, bruised, amused. Self-mocking? Most Ovidian."--Judith Hall, California Institute of Technology
Table of Content
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 Counter-Amores I.5 Counter-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
Copyright Date
2011
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lccn
2010-040356
Dewey Decimal
811.6
Series
Phoenix Poets Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
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