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Monogamy - Its Songs and Poems (Paperback)
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Monogamy - Its Songs and Poems (Paperback)
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Monogamy elaborates an ideology of romance from extraordinary poems
and songs, one by one. Poems and popular songs are still the main
medium for preserving the rules of romance. Each chapter is a
meditation on one of eight commonplaces about love: that it makes
one monogamous, sentimental, vulnerable; that its force is
immediate and transformative; or that it is a fickle force, but
cannot be bought, and yet endures. Strong poets and lyricists bend
these notions, as lovers do too. Great poems and songs come from
interstices between celebrated commonplaces, felt desires and
second-thoughts. The Book of Love is heterogeneous, complicated.
Some love poems reach significant numbers through books and
anthologies, and eventually classroom textbooks, and are held in
memory by generations of admirers. Many popular songs, however,
have reached extremely large audiences, beginning with Broadway
musicals, and continuing in the recordings of later jazz vocalists.
They are not read, but they are firmly lodged in memory. They are
the only poems known by most audiences. Canonical poems are
imitated by aspiring poets and versifiers. The actual verse culture
is layered with light verse, song lyrics, and Shakespeare’s
sonnets. To understand what poems effectively teach—about
romance, in particular—one should attend closely to songs too,
particularly in the U.S. since 1920.
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