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Title: Towards a General Theory of Love
Condition: New
Author: Clare Shaw
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1780376049
EAN: 9781780376042
ISBN: 9781780376042
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Genre: Poetry & Drama
Release Date: 26/05/2022
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 216mm
Item Length: 138mm
Item Width: 8mm
Release Year: 2022
Description: Clare Shaw’s fourth collection Towards a General Theory of Love shows that poetry can say as much as about who we are – and especially how we feel – as psychology. They also feed each other.Harry Harlow’s famous experiments on baby monkeys changed the course of psychology. They proved that we need care, contact and love – and they inflicted profound and lasting suffering on their subjects. Clare Shaw’s poems in Towards a General Theory of Love are driven by the same furious need to understand the experience of love and its absence. Harlow’s findings, attachment theory, mythology and art are set alongside stories of attraction, grief and desire. The book is inhabited by the character of Monkey, who shows by example how early attachments and trauma may shape us, but how ultimately the individual – like the reader – will come to realise her, his or their own general theory and practice of love.

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