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Counter-Amores
Jennifer Clarvoe
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Description for Counter-Amores
Paperback. Features poems which suggest that we discover what we love by fighting, by bringing our angry, hungry, imperfect selves into the battle. Num Pages: 88 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.
"Counter-Amores I.2". "Proof". Than brandished fire yet will I prove more strong - I burn unshaken, burn and die day-long. The hooked fish, torn, must learn to slip the bait Teasing the hook let go before too late. Not with you, but against you, love, I bruise My mouth, manage myself such pain I choose. I will this torment as I can't will love From you or me - what can a body prove? Though neither yours nor love's, still I'm a slave. Unite me from myself - I'm yours to have. Jennifer Clarvoe's second book, "Counter-Amores", wrestles with and ... Read more
"Counter-Amores I.2". "Proof". Than brandished fire yet will I prove more strong - I burn unshaken, burn and die day-long. The hooked fish, torn, must learn to slip the bait Teasing the hook let go before too late. Not with you, but against you, love, I bruise My mouth, manage myself such pain I choose. I will this torment as I can't will love From you or me - what can a body prove? Though neither yours nor love's, still I'm a slave. Unite me from myself - I'm yours to have. Jennifer Clarvoe's second book, "Counter-Amores", wrestles with and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226109282
SKU
V9780226109282
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About Jennifer Clarvoe
Jennifer Clarvoe is professor of English at Kenyon College. She is the author of Invisible Tender.
Reviews for Counter-Amores
"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 ... Read more