Love Three is a study of a seventeenth-century devotional poem by George Herbert; an essay on eroticizing power; and a memory palace of sexual experiences, fantasies, preferences, and limits—with Herbert’s poem as the key. It is unlike anything you have ever read—a deep, attentive reading of a text and a broad analysis (personal, historical, philosophical) of humanity’s most enduring theme.
Price: $20.00
Pages: 360
Publisher: Wave Books
Imprint: Wave Books
Publication Date:
07 May 2019
Trim Size: 7.25 X 4.50 in
ISBN: 9781940696829
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Religion, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 17th Century, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality (see also SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality), RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies
"Aaron Kunin keeps me honest—his reading, the extremity of his intelligence, the radical rigor (and weird humor) of his poetry and prose. His learnedness is almost anachronistic and yet I feel like he might, except for his lack of cynicism, be my most contemporary contemporary. I look up to him. it occurs to me often to be grateful for his work."—Ben Lerner
"Aaron Kunin, odd funny grim philosopher poet, brilliant and heartbreaking."—Catherine Wagner
"Kunin's Cold Genius tweezers deep feelings. It startles with pleasure and squeaks with pain through a relentless formal labyrinth. He is a master of the awkward sublime, poetry at its most clinical. I take pleasure in it, and that troubles me."—Jennifer Moxley
Aaron Kunin is the author of five books of poetry and prose, including, most recently, the collection of poems Cold Genius (Fence, 2014). Character as Form, a book of criticism, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury. He lives in California where he works as a literature professor at Pomona College.
