Our Andromeda Honored as a New York Times Book Review Notable Books of Honored by Cosmopolitan as the one poetry title on their list of Best Books of the Year For Women by Women A heady infectious celebr

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 New Yorker Shaughnessy s voice is smart, sexy, self aware, hip consistently wry, and ever savvy Harvard ReviewBrenda Shaughnessy s heartrending third coHonored 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 New Yorker Shaughnessy s voice is smart, sexy, self aware, hip consistently wry, and ever savvy Harvard ReviewBrenda Shaughnessy s heartrending third collection explores dark subjects trauma, childbirth, loss of faith and stark questions What is the use of pain and grief Is there another dimension in which our suffering might be transformed Can we change ourselves Yearning for new gods, new worlds, and new rules, she imagines a parallel existence in the galaxy of Andromeda.Rave reviews for Our Andromeda Love is the fierce engine of this beautiful and necessary book of poems Love is the high stakes, the whip of its power and grief and possibility for repair 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 But the truth is that I have no single opinion about this collection how could I The book is a series of narratives that resist interpretation but not feeling except that I am certain it further establishes Shaughnessy s particular genius, whi
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Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa, Japan, in 1970 and grew up in Southern California She received her B.A in literature and women s studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and she earned an M.F.A at Columbia University.She is the author of Human Dark with Sugar Copper Canyon Press, 2008 , winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Interior with Sudden Joy Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1999 , which was nominated for the PEN Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, a Lambda Literary Award, and the Norma Farber First Book Award Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Bomb, Boston Review, Conjunctions, McSweeney s, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere.About her work, the poet Richard Howard writes The resonance of Shaughnessy s poems is that of someone speaking out of an ecstasy and into an ecstasy, momentarily pausing to let us in on the fun, the pain Shaughnessy is the recipient of a Bunting Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and a Japan U.S Friendship Commission Artist Fellowship She is the poetry editor at Tin House magazine and currently teaches creative writing at Princeton University and Eugene Lang College at the New School.