{"id":14229,"date":"2020-02-06T15:49:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T20:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=14229"},"modified":"2022-11-03T12:19:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T16:19:53","slug":"i-live-in-the-country-other-dirty-poems","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/i-live-in-the-country-other-dirty-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"I Live in the Country & other dirty poems"},"content":{"rendered":"

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paper \u2022 150 pages \u2022 16.95
\nISBN-13: 978-1-945588-43-3<\/p>\n

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I Live in the Country & other dirty poems<\/em><\/h2>\n

Arielle Greenberg<\/h2>\n

Read Arielle Greenberg’s interview with Rachel Rabbit White for Poetry Foundation<\/em><\/a>.<\/h5>\n
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Arielle Greenberg\u2019s I Live in the Country & other dirty poems<\/em> exploits and undoes the stereotype of the \u201cwholesome country life.\u201d Here, the speaker moves to the country (\u201cwhere the animals are\u201d) 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\u2014in 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\u2014kink, fetish, and bondage\u2014 and moves it into the sunshine of sex-positivity and mutual consent. In doing so, she forges new literary territory\u2014a feminist re-visioning of the Romantic pastoral poems of seduction. \u201cI am trying to turn my eye toward joy,\u201d she writes. \u201cMy heart toward bliss.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

from “in the pines”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In order to have the sex I wanted
\nI had to leave the city
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\nwhere the animals are<\/p>\n

I took off all my clothes at the trailhead
\nand walked through the woods
\nlike some video for an Icelandic rock song<\/p>\n

I had to be made of the ice breaking up in the creek
\nI had to be in the pines
\nI had to go over the falls again<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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