Love is a song she sang from a cage

By Bianca Bowers

Book Overview

In her third book of poetry, Bianca Bowers explores the complexities of love and challenges the convention of monogamy.

I think of Anthony and Cleopatra...epic, fated, tragic lovers that drank from love's cup but once. Only, I am no Cleopatra. I am Juliette, with her teenage desire; ambivalent about poison and war.

Ruminating the one-love-fits-all theory, and toying with the concept of polyamory, the poetic voice travels from a starting point in which forbidden love poses a dilemma worthy of a Shakespearean-tragedy to a more indignant ending in which "our brains are slaveowners and love was never meant to be imprisoned."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0648442632
• ISBN13: 9780648442639
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Paperfields Press
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"