Love is a song she sang from a cage

In her third book of poetry, Bianca Bowers explores the complexities of love and challenges the convention of monogamy.I think of Anthony and Cleopatra...epic, fated, tragic lovers that drank from love's cup but once. Only, I am no Cleopatra. I am Juliette, with her teenage desire; ambivalent about poison and war.Ruminating the one-love-fits-all theory, and toying with the concept of polyamory, the poetic voice travels from a starting point in which forbidden love poses a dilemma worthy of a Shakespearean-tragedy to a more indignant ending in which ';our brains are slaveowners and love was never meant to be imprisoned.'