{"product_id":"counter-amores-paperback","title":"Counter-Amores - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJennifer Clarvoe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJennifer Clarvoe's second book, \u003ci\u003eCounter-Amores\u003c\/i\u003e, wrestles with and against love. The poems in the title series talk back to Ovid's \u003ci\u003eAmores\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003ebella\u003c\/i\u003e means both \"beautiful\" and \"wars.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJennifer Clarvoe\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of English at Kenyon College and a recipient of the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eInvisible Tender\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Poets Out Loud Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 31, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56198283329841,"sku":"9780226109282","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1004\/9532\/7537\/files\/NFiJsY_uea9780226109282.webp?v=1788992853","url":"https:\/\/mitchellofficial.com\/products\/counter-amores-paperback","provider":"MITCHELL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}