Arielle Greenberg\'s I Live in the Country & Other Dirty Poems exploits and undoes the stereotype of the wholesome Country life.
My heart toward bliss..
I am trying to turn my eye toward joy, she writes.
In doing so, she forges new literary territory--a feminist re-visioning of the Romantic pastoral Poems of seduction.
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.
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.
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.
Arielle Greenberg\'s I Live in the Country & Other Dirty Poems exploits and undoes the stereotype of the wholesome Country life
