{"product_id":"i-live-in-the-country-other-dirty-poems-by-arielle-greenberg","title":"Greenberg, Arielle: I Live in the Country \u0026 Other Dirty Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI Live in the Country \u0026amp; Other Dirty Poems\u003c\/em\u003e by Arielle Greenberg (Four Way Books, paperback)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: March 2, 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003cspan\u003eArielle Greenberg's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Live in the Country \u0026amp; other dirty poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31538788237335,"sku":"9781945588433","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/content_b74d8f3d-204c-46b9-be6e-205653e0a251.jpg?v=1590704827","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/i-live-in-the-country-other-dirty-poems-by-arielle-greenberg","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}