I live in the country & other dirty poems / Arielle Greenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenberg, Arielle, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Sexual behavior.

Women--Sexual behavior--Poetry.

Women.

Country life--Poetry.

Country life.

Erotic poetry, American.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

135 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

I live in the country and other dirty poems

Place of Publication:

Tribeca : Four Way Books, [2020]

Summary:

"Sexually explicit poems that address the radical possibilities of a woman's pleasure and the endless varieties of human desire. Arielle Greenberg's I Live in the Country & other dirty poems exploits and undoes the stereotype of the "wholesome country life." Here, the speaker moves to the country ("where the animals are") in order to live a whole life, one in which she can live honestly and openly in a non-monogamous marriage. Her book is a visceral, erotic celebration of the cornucopia of sexual pleasures to be had in that rural life-in the muck of a pasture in spring or behind the bins of whole-wheat pastry flour at the local Co-op. Greenberg hauls out what has previously been stored under dark counters and labeled deviant-kink, fetish, and bondage- and moves it into the sunshine of sex-positivity and mutual consent. In doing so, she forges new literary territory-a feminist re-visioning of the Romantic pastoral poems of seduction. "I am trying to turn my eye toward joy," she writes. "My heart toward bliss.""-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I Am an Animal p. 3

"Made by Maid" is My Favorite Song by Laura Marling and I Want to Crawl Inside It, and You, Too p. 7

A Wild Way p. 9

Friend to the Farmers p. 11

I Live in the Country p. 13

Chassis p. 15

The Boy (Inappropriate) p. 18

"In the Pines" p. 22

I Lay on the Shore Naked this Morning at Dawn and Thought Again about Submission p. 24

Baking p. 25

The Pornographic Imagination p. 26

And a Brief Memo on Impossibility p. 29

Chat p. 30

Hiding p. 35

I Have to Leave the Country p. 37

A Mothering Hole p. 38

Shearling p. 41

It's a Black Box Theater p. 43

At the Time of the Year when the Veil is Thinnest p. 44

Divining Rod p. 45

Girl on Girl p. 49

Hand-Fasted p. 51

Gee p. 53

Interapocalyptacourse p. 55

Leaf-Peeping p. 57

Queers p. 61

Taproot p. 64

"Primal Play" p. 68

Hops and Barley p. 70

Did You Have a Midlife Crisis on Top of Your Midlife Crisis? p. 73

Homesteading p. 77

Suck p. 79

Stasis p. 80

Eat Sleep Fuck p. 82

Trinity p. 84

Altered Animals p. 86

Bang p. 90

Mostly you are worried about my children p. 92

The Arbor p. 95

Butch/Bourbon p. 96

After, and Before p. 98

Stroking p. 100

Commons p. 102

After We Make a Mess p. 103

Interlude: I Like Cock p. 104

The Real Thing! p. 106

Things That'll Chew You p. 120

Dreamy p. 123

Desire, perhaps from the Latin, meaning "from the Stars" p. 125

Re-pleat p. 128

I Do Not Want to Fuck You Captain America p. 129

How I Have Evolved p. 131

The Grid p. 133.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781945588433

1945588438

OCLC:

1110656590

Publisher Number:

99984227190