Make Love Not War [Explicit Lyrics]

Jennie Orvino | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 22, 2002)
• Original Release Date: March 22, 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Label: Jennie Orvino
• ASIN: B00006ADZM
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #823,919 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The General’s Dream

2. Worship Service

3. Main Squeeze Blues

4. Three Valentines

5. Love in the Time of Tragedy

6. Afternoon

7. Juggernaut

8. Make Love Not War

9. The Dream of Undoing

10. Coffee Date

11. If You Want Something Done Right

12. Triangle

13. Bitch in Heat

14. Moon Dance

15. Me, the Queen

Editorial Reviews

About the Artist

National Book Award-winning poet Robert Bly wrote of Orvino's third book, Heart of the Peony: "These poems don’t dance around at the edge of town, they head straight for the center." About one of her erotic vignettes, Christopher Saint observed, "Like a sock in the solar plexus, it took my breath clean away!"

Orvino’s work has been published at cleansheets.com, slowtrains.com., The New York Quarterly, First Leaves, WestWord, Human Awareness Institute Community Journal, Sacramento News and Review, Sonoma Poets Collection II, and Good Vibrations’ Sex Toy Tales. She received the Don L. Emblen Literary Award (2000), and first prize for poetry in the 2001 edition of Copperfield’s Books Literary Review, The Dickens.

Orvino says, "I’ve been writing poems since I got a diary with a lock and key at age 15," Indeed, reading her work is like peeking into the subsequent volumes of that diary where the themes of peace and justice, sexuality and relationships, self-actualization and creativity have been explored.

In addition to being a purveyor of the spoken word, Orvino has worked as a journalist, editor, graphic designer, print production manager and teacher. Her performance credits range from theatrical stage and coffee house to intimate living room salons, and have included collaborations with drummers, actors, jazz singers and a variety of musicians.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Passionate, provocative, plaintive, mesmerizing..., July 4, 2002

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Jennie Orvino "feature writer, poet and arts ... (Santa Rosa, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Make Love Not War (Audio CD)

In Jennie Orvino's "Make Love Not War," poetry and music combine into a rich, spicy musical-verbal stew, fulfilling as a good meal. Orvino is heartfelt but never sappy, sultry and sexy without being vulgar, equally passionate about war and love. Her musical collaborations are in a range of styles, each piece distinctive. Orvino performs her poetry: acts it, scats it, bats it about like the kittenish tiger she is, tickling and teasing in a juicy purr.

Orvino is fearless as she steers from rooms of sexual ecstasy to lands of devastation. Salvation lies somewhere on the road between those two realms. She mourns the horrors of war, but in erotic passion there is hope for transcendence. Each informs the other: the consciousness of such horror brings intensity to love, and love is the only possible respite when bombs are devastating your home.

Eros is Orvino's ministry, healing and redemptive. She personalizes the beseiged, becomes a warrior boy, wonders about those who were kissing for the last time before being buried in rubble. And in her poems, she loves as if each encounter might be the final collision of skin against skin.

I'm finding that "Make Love Not War" is a good thing to listen to while driving. In Los Angeles, at least, you see humanity at its lowest ebb while passing it by enclosed in your bubble. The driver who throws his lit cigarette out the window, then veers in front of another car. The sad-faced woman at the bus stop. The sullen young man with his rap bass so up it shakes the car next to him. But then you let Orvino and her musicians take you over. The toddler runs in her yellow dress in a yellow field. A war-blasted landscape regreens and reanimates. People kneel at each others‚ feet, rubbing one another, as she puts it, like "deer at a salt lick."

You smile. You might cry. At home, you'll reach for your lover. That kiss might well be your last. Make it sweet.