{"product_id":"counter-amores-jennifer-clarvoe-9780226109282","title":"Counter-Amores","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer Clarvoe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226109283\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226109282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/31\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2011 pg. 86","brand":"Jennifer Clarvoe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48064792559871,"sku":"9780226109282","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e218f0ac-de67-446f-9fbe-b647ce9c7d7a.jpg?v=1768671082","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/counter-amores-jennifer-clarvoe-9780226109282","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}