Ebook {Epub PDF} So Much Synth by Brenda Shaughnessy

So Much Synth is a brave and ferocious collection composed of equal parts femininity, pain, pleasure, and synthesizer. While Shaughnessy tenderly winces at her youthful excesses, we humbly catch glimpses of our own. From "Never Ever": Late is a synonym for dead which is a euphemism for ever. Ever is a double-edged word,4/5(12). Brenda Shaughnessy reads from her latest poetry collection, So Much Synth, published in May by Copper Canyon Press. How It Is. It isn't every day I can wrap my mind around it. It being just what you'd think it is. Not a thing or a condition of being but an extended body holiday, its movements are like dance but really more like fireEstimated Reading Time: 3 mins.  · So Much Synth is beautiful because Shaughnessy is a proven talent; it is gorgeous because it never allows pain to linger long without joy. Eighties music is a perfect vehicle for Shaughnessy’s experience of nostalgia, and the third section of the collection is particularly infused with synth, Aqua Net, and Duran www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins.

So Much Synth by Brenda Shaughnessy Re-creating, synthesizing (as it were) her youth and adulthood as Duran Duran and Simple Minds synthesized their catchiest melodies, Shaughnessy gains power as she modulates from memory into feminist argument, and then—in the last few poems—into speech as a responsible adult. read more. Afterland by Mai. Brenda Shaughnessy (born ) is an American poet. Life. Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa and grew up in Southern California. So Much Synth, was published in by Copper Canyon Press. Her fifth book of poems, The Octopus Museum, was published by Knopf in Buy So Much Synth by Brenda Shaughnessy online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 2 editions - starting at $ Shop now.

So Much Synth is beautiful because Shaughnessy is a proven talent; it is gorgeous because it never allows pain to linger long without joy. Eighties music is a perfect vehicle for Shaughnessy’s experience of nostalgia, and the third section of the collection is particularly infused with synth, Aqua Net, and Duran Duran. I turn away from the window, anticipating a blow. I thought I'd find myself. an old woman by now, traveling so light in time. But I haven't gotten far at all. Strange not to be able to pick up the pace as I'd like; the past is so horribly fast. Brenda Shaughnessy, "I Have a Time Machine" from So Much Synth. Brenda Shaughnessy is the author of five poetry collections, including The Octopus Museum (coming in March from Knopf); So Much Synth (, Copper Canyon Press); Our Andromeda (), which was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award, The International Griffin Prize, and the PEN Open Book Award.