Brenda Shaughnessy s poems bristle with imperatives: confuse me, spoon-feed me, stop the madness, decide. There are more direct orders in her first few pages than in six weeks of boot camp...Only Shaughnessy s kidding. Or she is and she isn t. If you just want to boss people around, you re a control freak, but if you can joke about it, then your bossiness is leavened by a yeast that s all too infrequent in contemporary poetry, that of humor. "New York Times"
Shaughnessy s voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip . . . consistently wry, and ever savvy. "Harvard Review"
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Brenda Shaughnessy s poems bristle with imperatives: confuse me, spoon-feed me, stop the madness, decide. There are more direct orders in her first fe...
Praise for earlier editions: - These poets] prove that American poetry has the strength and vision to move beyond the MFA environment in order to reshape and reflect past traditions.--- Bloomsbury Review
-This collection stands out among the crowd claiming to represent emergent poets. Much of the editing and preliminary reading was done by emerging poets themselves, which results in an anthology that's fresh and eclectic, and may actually represent a significant portion of the best new poetry being written by the next generation.... Best New Poets] assures the...
Praise for earlier editions: - These poets] prove that American poetry has the strength and vision to move beyond the MFA environment in order to r...
"Over the last two decades Shaughnessy has stripped herself down to a voice that can sing plainly about disappointment and love in hard circumstances and the lost art of the mix tape."--The Paris Review
"Shaughnessy finds ever new ways to rend the heart in this biting and poignant anthropological study of girlhood and adolescence."--Publishers Weekly
Subversions of idiom and cliche punctuate Brenda 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...
"Over the last two decades Shaughnessy has stripped herself down to a voice that can sing plainly about disappointment and love in hard circumstanc...
