So Much Synth Shaughnessy s particular genius is utterly poetic but essayistic in scope The New Yorker Brenda Shaughnessy s work is a good place to start for any passionate woman feeling daunted by poetry Cosmopol
Shaughnessy s particular genius is utterly poetic, but essayistic in scope The New Yorker Brenda Shaughnessy s work is a good place to start for any passionate woman feeling daunted by poetry Cosmopolitan Shaughnessy s voice is smart, sexy, self aware, hip consistently wry, and ever savvy Harvard ReviewSubversions of idiom and clich punctuate Shaughnes Shaughnessy s particular genius is utterly poetic, but essayistic in scope The New Yorker Brenda Shaughnessy s work is a good place to start for any passionate woman feeling daunted by poetry Cosmopolitan Shaughnessy s voice is smart, sexy, self aware, hip consistently wry, and ever savvy Harvard ReviewSubversions of idiom and clich punctuate Shaughnessy s fourth collection as she approaches middle age and revisits the memories, romances, and music of adolescence So Much Synth is a brave and ferocious collection composed of equal parts femininity, pain, pleasure, and synthesizer While Shaughnessy tenderly winces at her youthful excesses, we humbly catch glimpses of our own.From Never Ever Late is a synonym for dead which is a euphemismfor ever Ever is a double edged word,at once itself and its own opposite alwaysand always some other time In the category of cleave, then To cut and to cling to,somewhat mournfully Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa, Japan and grew up in Southern California She is the author of three books of poetry, including Human Dark with Sugar, winner of the James Laughlin Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Our Andromeda, which was a New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2013 She is an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University, Newark, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Brenda Shaughnessy
Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa, Japan, in 1970 and grew up in Southern California She received her B.A in literature and women s studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and she earned an M.F.A at Columbia University.She is the author of Human Dark with Sugar Copper Canyon Press, 2008 , winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Interior with Sudden Joy Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1999 , which was nominated for the PEN Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, a Lambda Literary Award, and the Norma Farber First Book Award Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Bomb, Boston Review, Conjunctions, McSweeney s, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere.About her work, the poet Richard Howard writes The resonance of Shaughnessy s poems is that of someone speaking out of an ecstasy and into an ecstasy, momentarily pausing to let us in on the fun, the pain Shaughnessy is the recipient of a Bunting Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and a Japan U.S Friendship Commission Artist Fellowship She is the poetry editor at Tin House magazine and currently teaches creative writing at Princeton University and Eugene Lang College at the New School.