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.'
| ISBN: | 9781780376301 |
| Publication date: | 3rd November 2022 |
| Author: | Shaughnessy, Brenda |
| Publisher: | Bloodaxe Books |
| Format: | Ebook |
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.
Ebook, Paperback. £16.36. Digital. Available Immediately. Country restrictions apply..
Liquid Flesh was written by Shaughnessy, Brenda and published by Bloodaxe Books
£16.36. Digital. Available Immediately. Country restrictions apply..