Our Andromeda - Ebook written by Brenda Shaughnessy. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Our Andromeda. · "Brenda Shaughnessy explores the possibilities of a second chance in life and what could come of it. Enticing and thoughtful, Our Andromeda is a fine addition to contemporary poetry shelves." —The Midwest Book Review. Brenda Shaughnessy was Brand: Copper Canyon Press. Brenda Shaughnessy writes love poetry, I think. Not romantic love poetry, exactly. The long poem "Our Andromeda" which closes this volume and which lovingly imagines an alternate world where her son, Cal, who is seemingly disabled in some way and fragile, /5.
Hearts might be strange and "tart," as Brenda Shaughnessy declares them to be: "Gone sour in the sun,/ in the sunroom or moonroof, / roofless." Well, "tart" offers a nice play on words, and the poet is gifted with knowing just how much innuendo will suffice. " Attentive to Our Andromeda, perhaps we would all reach just so. Rated by Users Critics. Check out detail reviews rating quotes community of Our Andromeda by Brenda Shaughnessy. ISBN , The New York Times Book Review named it one of the. Brenda Shaughnessy explores the possibilities of a second chance in life and what could come of it. Enticing and thoughtful, Our Andromeda is a fine addition to contemporary poetry shelves. --The Midwest Book Review. Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa, Japan and grew up in Southern.
In her eponymous, long poem “Our Andromeda,” she speaks to her child, “[a] child born to a liar who is learning / to change “ Here, she finds that we may live “with Andromeda inside us.” All may yet come well. This is powerful stuff. Both raw and cooked--Shaughnessy works through very difficult emotional material with great honesty and art. Our Andromeda has all the rhetorical energy and verbal inventiveness of Interior With Sudden Joy and Human Dark With Sugar, and much of the cheekiness of those first two books, but this third collection is deeper and necessarily more mature. Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa, Japan and grew up in Southern California. She is the author of Human Dark with Sugar (Copper Canyon Press, ), winner of the James Laughlin Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Interior with Sudden Joy (FSG, ).
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