
- 236 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Spanning twenty years and five collections, Brenda Shaughnessy's Liquid Flesh: New & Selected Poems introduces new readers to one of America's most audacious and thrilling poets.
Since debuting with the sexy swagger of 1999's Interior with Sudden Joy, Shaughnessy has honed a poetic voice rich with contradictions: her poems are simultaneously tricky and blindingly honest, sensual and grief-stricken, coy and utterly self-possessed.She is a moralist with a profound sense of play, taking the patriarchy and the malevolent powers-that-be to task, as in her seminal poem 'I'm Over the Moon': 'I don't like what the moon is supposed to do./ Confuse me, ovulate me, // spoon-feed me longing. A kind of ancient / date-rape drug. So I'll howl at you, moon, // I'm angry. I'll take back the night.'
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Table of contents
- Description
- Title Page
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- from INTERIOR WITH SUDDEN JOY (1999)
- from HUMAN DARK WITH SUGAR (2008)
- from OUR ANDROMEDA (2012)
- from SO MUCH SYNTH (2016)
- from THE OCTOPUS MUSEUM (2019)
- NEW POEMS
- About the Author
- Copyright