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Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart
About this book
Juxtaposing the diction of surrealism with Ovid, Callimachus, and popular music—punk and new wave—the poems in Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart concern themselves with various aspects of Eros.
From wistful romance to explicit sex, these poems are inspired by the troubadour poets of Provence and Italy, and invoke such historical figures as the Byzantine Empress Theodora and her husband, Emperor Justinian, not to mention the Countess of Dia—Beatriz—a major poet of the troubadour tradition; these are Hausner's "alter voices," expressing permutations of presence, absence, conquest, and loss.
Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart reaches back through the millenia to create an unexpected, unconventional, and contemporary exploration of one of humanity's oldest pleasures.
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The Importance of Human Romance
I walk into an empty room
And suddenly my heart goes boom
—Eurythmics
I
I surrender and enter a great flame
blazing in my room like a burning
heart making all else disappear
hold in your hand the thing
completely all made of fire
and speak to me:
tuus sum: I am yours.
hold my figure in your arms
surround me with that
crimson cloth all over
such is my idolatry of you
the joy carried in my blood turning
these veins into knots of heat
again hold in your hand the thing
completely made of flame and
speak to me: vide cor tuum
my heart I keep inside you
even as I burn I relinquish
my powers and may you consume
us and be absorbed in nuptial fire
mine is cast in flames.
I sleep and don’t wake up
tuus sum: I am yours
my new life is reverie
II
the angel is standing
watch at the door
do you feel his breathing
as he now lies between us?
perhaps when you allow your
animals to be soft felines lightly
stepping on our bodies. Recall
too the languid afternoons
when heat was quieted sound
and not this icy noise grating
at the foundations of my house
it is the angel’s manner of parting
the waters that drop from
above and awaken the bodies
while enclosing the spirits
the shaking earth breaks the air
as I invoke you and your splendid
front because of your entirety
and its creation
soon respiration will
consume th...
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Epigraph
- Tied Up
- High Priestess
- Song on Tongue
- So soon as the front of you
- Tied Up
- Because I Am Beatrice
- Theodorae Biblioteca
- The Dream of Theodora
- Justinian’s Dream
- Isis Up in the Air
- Every Door Has Two Fronts
- The Delightful Love Of Bacchus
- A Story of Egypt, Twisted
- Isis Up in the Air
- For Good and Ever
- Begins the Bright Season
- The Importance of Human Romance
- The Importance of Human Romance
- The Orgasm Elegies
- The Orgasm Elegies
- Prayer Star
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Colophon