The Next Illogical Step In Love Poetry
""The next illogical step
"in love poetry
"The most inscrutable beautiful names in this world
"always do sound like diseases.
"It is because they are engorged.
"G., I am a fool.
"What we feel in the solar plexus wrecks us.
"Halfway sq[...]
"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 cont[...]
"A heady, infectious celebration."--"The New Yorker""Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip . . . consistently wry, and ever savvy."--"Harvard Review"Brenda Shaughnessy's heartrending third collection explores dark subjects--trauma, childbirth, loss of faith--and stark questions: What i[...]