Counter-Amores

Jennifer Clarvoe’s second book, Counter-Amores , wrestles with and against love. The poems in the title series talk back to Ovid’s Amores , and, in talking back, take charge, take delight, and take revenge. They suggest that we discover what we love by fighting, by bringing our angry, hungry, imperfect selves into the battle. Like a man who shouts for the echo back from a cliff, or the scientist who teaches her parrot to say, “I love you,” or the philosopher who wonders what it is like to be a b