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Author Clarvoe, Jennifer.

Title Counter-amores / Jennifer Clarvoe.

Publication Info. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 73 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Phoenix poets
Phoenix poets.
Summary Jennifer Clarvoe & rsquo;s second book, Counter-Amores, wrestles with and against love. The poems in the title series talk back to Ovid & rsquo;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, & ldquo;I love you, & rdquo; or the philosopher who wonders what it is like to be a bat, or Temple Grandin & rsquo;s lucid imaginings of the last moments of cattle d.
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Subject Love poetry, American -- 21st century.
Love poetry, American.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject American poetry -- 21st century.
American poetry.
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Poetry.
Poetry.
Other Form: Print version: Clarvoe, Jennifer. Counter-amores. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2011 9780226109282 (DLC) 2010040356 (OCoLC)666491990
ISBN 9780226109299 (electronic book)
0226109291 (electronic book)
1283268000
9781283268004
9780226109282
0226109283