{"product_id":"counter-amores-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\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/31\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Phoenix Poets\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.3lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226109282","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48296610332809,"sku":"9780226109282","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_cbebbe80-5a20-482a-8c00-453137048897.jpg?v=1788843829","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/counter-amores-9780226109282","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}