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I Live in the Country & other dirty poems
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 nonmonogamous 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.”
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I Live in the Country & other dirty poems
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 nonmonogamous 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.”
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I Live in the Country & other dirty poems

I Live in the Country & other dirty poems

by Arielle Greenberg
I Live in the Country & other dirty poems
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I Live in the Country & other dirty poems

I Live in the Country & other dirty poems

by Arielle Greenberg

Overview

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 nonmonogamous 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.”

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781945588600
Publisher: Four Way Books
Publication date: 03/02/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 150
Sales rank: 947,693
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Arielle Greenberg’s previous poetry collections are Come Along with Me to the Pasture Now, Slice, My Kafka Century and Given. She’s also the writer of the creative nonfiction book Locally Made Panties, the transgenre chapbooks Shake Her and Fa(r)ther Down, and co-author, with Rachel Zucker, of Home/Birth: A Poemic. She has co-edited three anthologies, including Gurlesque, forthcoming in an expanded digital edition co-edited with Becca Klaver. Arielle’s poems and essays have been featured in Best American Poetry, Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today’s Best Women Writers and The Racial Imaginary, among other anthologies. She wrote a column on contemporary poetics for the American Poetry Review, and edited a series of essays called (K)ink: Writing While Deviant for The Rumpus. A former tenured professor in poetry at Columbia College Chicago, she lives with her family in Maine, where she writes, edits, teaches and works for a creative services agency.

Table of Contents

I Am an Animal 3

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

A Wild Way 9

Friend to the Farmers 11

I Live in the Country 13

Chassis 15

The Boy (Inappropriate) 18

"In the Pines" 22

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

Baking 25

The Pornographic Imagination 26

And a Brief Memo on Impossibility 29

Chat 30

Hiding 35

I Have to Leave the Country 37

A Mothering Hole 38

Shearling 41

It's a Black Box Theater 43

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

Divining Rod 45

Girl on Girl 49

Hand-Fasted 51

Gee 53

Interapocalyptacourse 55

Leaf-Peeping 57

Queers 61

Taproot 64

"Primal Play" 68

Hops and Barley 70

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

Homesteading 77

Suck 79

Stasis 80

Eat Sleep Fuck 82

Trinity 84

Altered Animals 86

Bang 90

Mostly you are worried about my children 92

The Arbor 95

Butch/Bourbon 96

After, and Before 98

Stroking 100

Commons 102

After We Make a Mess 103

Interlude: I Like Cock 104

The Real Thing! 106

Things That'll Chew You 120

Dreamy 123

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

Re-pleat 128

I Do Not Want to Fuck You Captain America 129

How I Have Evolved 131

The Grid 133

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