I Love It Though

by Alli Warren

Alli Warren's I Love It Though looks hard at the material and affective world we've inherited, including the ordinariness of the sublime and the sublimity and transcendence of what's most ordinary. This book makes meaning of our contemporary moment, both sharp and vulnerable, concrete and musical. These poems are committed to living in the present, delirious with outrage and hope for something better.

Genres: Poetry

114 pages, Paperback

First published March 7, 2017

Reviews

[Nicole · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book took me awhile to get through because at times the dense language makes the meaning hard to glean, but when the poems worked they worked very well. This felt a lot more adult than Alli's last book, common things of mindless work, debt, and of course the love of the Bay Area and food.

[hjh · Rating 4 out of 5]

“Share a king
Accumulate none
Say hello to the crow

There are certain chord progressions
One should avoid” (48)

[b · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Dear casual moment
dear inflated object
Who can live, who gets to eat
what’s a sidewalk, what’s a street
Let’s loot the establishments
I mean feed each other”

[Rob Hendricks · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love it though too. Sifting and riffing the idiomatic, Warren gets into the ridges and clefts between clinching and clenching, stalkings and stockings..."what lies between / want and need / in gutteral gesture / in coated pluming."

[Erik Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

"So while I could be an accomplice to the flood

or insist on property as my right to white life

or saunter out into the surf of the street with the gaze and the beard and the bread and the get called genius and heir

better to ladle in the brothy endurance of subsistence and resistance"