Clare Shaw's fourth collection Towards a General Theory of Love
shows that poetry can say as much as about who we are - and
especially how we feel - as psychology. They also feed each other.
Harry Harlow's famous experiments on baby monkeys changed the
course of psychology. They proved that we need care, contact and
love - and they inflicted profound and lasting suffering on their
subjects. Clare Shaw's poems in Towards a General Theory of Love
are driven by the same furious need to understand the experience of
love and its absence. Harlow's findings, attachment theory,
mythology and art are set alongside stories of attraction, grief
and desire. The book is inhabited by the character of Monkey, who
shows by example how early attachments and trauma may shape us, but
how ultimately the individual - like the reader - will come to
realise her, his or their own general theory and practice of love.
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