Monogamy
Von Hallberg, Rober
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 ...