Love Three: A Study of a Poem by George Herbert

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Love Threeis a study of a seventeenth-century devotional poem by George Herbert; an essay on eroticizing power; and a memory palace of sexual experiences, fantasies, preferences, and limitswith Herberts poem as the key. It is unlike anything you have ever reada deep, attentive reading of a text and a broad analysis (personal, historical, philosophical) of humanitys most enduring theme.

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Aaron Kunin keeps me honest--his reading, the extremity of his intelligence, the radical rigor (and weird humor) of his poetry and prose. His learnedness is almost anachronistic and yet I feel like he might, except for his lack of cynicism, be my most contemporary contemporary. I look up to him. it occurs to me often to be grateful for his work.--Ben Lerner

Aaron Kunin, odd funny grim philosopher poet, brilliant and heartbreaking.--Catherine Wagner

Kunin's Cold Genius tweezers deep feelings. It startles with pleasure and squeaks with pain through a relentless formal labyrinth. He is a master of the awkward sublime, poetry at its most clinical. I take pleasure in it, and that troubles me.--Jennifer Moxley

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Aaron Kunin is the author of five books of poetry and prose, including, most recently, the collection of poems Cold Genius (Fence, 2014). Character as Form, a book of criticism, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury. He lives in California where he works as a literature professor at Pomona College.