{"product_id":"i-live-in-the-country-other-dirty-poems-9781945588433","title":"I Live in the Country \u0026 Other Dirty Poems","description":"Arielle Greenberg's \u003ci\u003eI Live in the Country \u0026amp; other dirty poems\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-12964031\"\u003eArielle Greenberg\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Four Way Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/02\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781945588433\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1945588438\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE005010\"\u003eAmerican | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE024000\"\u003eWomen Authors\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE023020\"\u003eSubjects \u0026amp; Themes | Love \u0026amp; Erotica\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArielle Greenberg's previous poetry collections are \u003ci\u003eCome Along with Me to the Pasture Now, Slice, My Kafka Century\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGiven\u003c\/i\u003e. She's also the writer of the creative nonfiction book \u003ci\u003eLocally Made Panties\u003c\/i\u003e, the transgenre chapbooks \u003ci\u003eShake Her\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Fa(r)ther Down\u003c\/i\u003e, and co-author, with Rachel Zucker, of \u003ci\u003eHome\/Birth: A Poemic\u003c\/i\u003e. She has co-edited three anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eGurlesque\u003c\/i\u003e, forthcoming in an expanded digital edition co-edited with Becca Klaver. Arielle's poems and essays have been featured in \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry, Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today's Best Women Writers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Racial Imaginary\u003c\/i\u003e, among other anthologies. She wrote a column on contemporary poetics for the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and edited a series of essays called \u003ci\u003e(K)ink: Writing While Deviant\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Four Way Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44497835426029,"sku":"9781945588433","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_fd1bd35d-dbfc-49da-8e74-633c71e30090.jpg?v=1700955011","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/i-live-in-the-country-other-dirty-poems-9781945588433","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}