{"product_id":"9780226109299","title":"Counter-Amores","description":"Jennifer 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.”","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47083959877872,"sku":"9780226109299","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780226109299_p0.jpg?v=1763674503","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780226109299","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}