Arielle Greenberg's I Live in the Country & other dirty poems exploits and undoes the stereotype of the "e;wholesome country life."e; Here, the speaker moves to the country ("e;where the animals are"e;) in order to live a whole life, one in which she can live honestly and openly in a nonmonogamous marriage. Her book is a visceral, erotic celebration of the cornucopia of sexual pleasures to be had in that rural life-in the muck of a pasture in spring or behind the bins of whole-wheat pastry flour at the local co-op. Greenberg hauls out what has previously been stored under dark counters and labeled deviant-kink, fetish, and bondage-and moves it into the sunshine of sex-positivity and mutual consent. In doing so, she forges new literary territory-a feminist re-visioning of the Romantic pastoral poems of seduction. "e;I am trying to turn my eye toward joy,"e; she writes. "e;My heart toward bliss."e;