{"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\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Four Way Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50368918225170,"sku":"9781945588433","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_038d6c7b-5cdf-4678-9f04-7405e7aa9d96.jpg?v=1728517005","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/i-live-in-the-country-other-dirty-poems-9781945588433","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}