Human Dark with Sugar
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 TimesShaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip . . . consistently wry, and ever savvy.-Harvard ReviewBrenda Shaughnessy . . . writes like the love-child of Mina Loy and Frank O'Hara.-…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-61932-011-6
- EAN: 9781619320116
- Produktnummer: 24088560
- Verlag: Copper Canyon Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 96 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 490 KB
Über den Autor
Brenda Shaughnessy's first book of poems, Interior with Sudden Joy (FSG, 1999) was nominated for the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award and the Norma Farber First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Bomb, Conjunctions, McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review and elsewhere. She is poetry editor at Tin House magazine and lives in Brooklyn.
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