{"product_id":"advice-for-lovers-9780872865815","title":"Advice for Lovers","description":"\u003cp\u003eInspired by Ovid's instructional \u003cem\u003eArs Amatoria\u003c\/em\u003e, with overtones of Renaissance sonnet cycles, \u003cem\u003eAdvice for Lovers\u003c\/em\u003e is a highly wrought volume of poems. Intricately formal but saucy and contemporary in diction, \u003cem\u003eAdvice for Lovers\u003c\/em\u003e walks a fine line between the anything-goes orthography of the Elizabethans and the shifting etymologies of James Joyce. Sexy, kinky, disquieting, \u003cem\u003eAdvice for Lovers\u003c\/em\u003e blazes an erotic trail into the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"What if I'm spirited away to live in a torch song?--Where the landscape is a lover's discourse? Julian Talamantez Brolaski has me in thrall! In this enchanting book, Julian jacks up the artifice and jacks up the feeling.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Glück\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In this aesthetically audacious collection of poems, Julian Talamantez Brolaski offers xir 'advice to lovers' in unabashedly voluptuous language. This is dithyrambic verse, variously festive and feisty, impudent and sad. It is beautiful, but never serene. And how could it be? The difference between 'seeing to' and 'singing to' is not large, and everything in this book suggests that to advise is to love. In giving it, Julian exercises xir native tongue with linguistic amorousness over a wide range of poetic registers. Guidance has never been this much fun; jouissance has never been smarter.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eLyn Hejinian\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"'The cure for love is more love, ' and the cure for the languishing lyric lies in the architecture of these poems. Julian Talamantez Brolaski's \u003cem\u003eAdvice for Lovers\u003c\/em\u003e builds 'upon the ponderous page' new structures for our most lustful and deviant acts. A highly intelligent form of re-purposed 16-century gestures that rouses the reading body, again and again.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eRenee Gladman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The copy tags the work 'sexy, kinky, disquieting . . . blazes an erotic trail.' And it does so with a pervasive humor that does not make light of but rather sinks the moment deeper into the psyche, where sex, pain, longing, and humor all hang out. I'm so into this book!\"--\u003cstrong\u003eMichelle Tea\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuthor of \u003cem\u003egowanus atropolis\u003c\/em\u003e (2011) and editor at \u003cem\u003eAufgabe\u003c\/em\u003e and Litmus Press, \u003cstrong\u003eJulian Talamantez Brolaski\u003c\/strong\u003e studied with Nathaniel Mackey, Elizabeth Willis, and Robert Hass. Xe rejects gendered pronouns and lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at The New School.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e City Lights Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/24\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780872865815\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.90h x 5.40w x 0.50d","brand":"Julian Talamantez Brolaski","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43397641797813,"sku":"9780872865815","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_d5cd8a0f-f877-4c86-b668-013871bae52c.jpg?v=1702391572","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/advice-for-lovers-9780872865815","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}