Our Andromeda
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (935 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1556594100 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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She is an Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University, Newark, and lives in Brooklyn with her husband, son and daughter.. She is the author of Human Dark with Sugar (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), winner of the James Laughlin Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Interior with Sudden Joy (FSG, 1999). About the AuthorBrenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa, Japan and grew up in Southern California. Shaughnessy’s poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Harper's, The Nation, The Rumpus, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review
Brenda Shaughnessy has brought her full self to bear in Our Andromeda, and the result is a book that should be read now because it is a collection whose song will endure.” The New York Times Book Review"It is a monumental work, and makes a hash of those tired superlatives that will no doubt crop up in subsequent reviews. Love is the high stakes, the whip of its power and grief and possibility for repair. Once there, she says to her son, you'll have the babyhood you deserved.’ She also delivers a number of lovely lyrics in a supple, plainly stated line; some merely expressive, some with a philosophically questioning air; on fate, dreams, the present time’s long gaze back at the past you know, all the good things poets write about.” Alan Cheuse, on NPR’s list 5 Books of Poems to Get You Through the Summer” This book explores love and motherhood and the turbulent terrain of grief.”Cosmopolitan"Shaughnessy articulates, with force and clarity, the transformation that motherhood has required of her. Shaughnessy’s poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Harper's, The Nation, The Rumpus, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review. Honored as a New York Times Book Review "100 Notable Books of 2013"Honored by Cosmopolitan as the one poetry title on their list of Best Books of the Year For Women, by Women”"A heady, infectious celebration."The
She is the author of Human Dark with Sugar (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), winner of the James Laughlin Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Interior with Sudden Joy (FSG, 1999). Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa, Japan and grew up in Southern California. Shaughnessy’s poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Harper's, The Nation, The Rumpus, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review
Paolo & Francesca said Dazzling. A triumph of art and love over grief and despair. Fierce, heartbreaking, tender, musical, Our Andromeda is a triumph of love and imagination overcoming grief and fear. Inspired by the circumstance of her son who suffers brain injury at birth resulting in permanent disability, Brenda Shaughnessy works out in these poems her desire for an alternate world in which "there are n. Beautifully rendered in a hard scrabble sort of way Mary Eastham As a poet myself, I look at books with a different eye, almost like the third eye every mother must have.The poetess in this eloquent collection mesmerized me with her quirky-funny take on things. Like the firststanza of HEAD-HANDED:Stop belonging to me so much, face-head.Leave me to my child and my flowers.I can't run with . Roy said I enjoyed this work of poetry immensely. I enjoyed this work of poetry immensely. There is a clever clarity the Shaughnessy has in the working of a poem on page. I highly recommend this work, including the title poem.