{"product_id":"so-much-synth","title":"So Much Synth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Shaughnessy's particular genius . . . is utterly poetic, but essayistic in scope.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Brenda Shaughnessy's work is a good place to start for any passionate woman feeling daunted by poetry.\" --\u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip . . . consistently wry, and ever savvy.\"--\u003ci\u003eHarvard Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSubversions of idiom and cliché punctuate Shaughnessy's fourth collection as she approaches middle age and revisits the memories, romances, and music of adolescence. \u003ci\u003eSo Much Synth \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Never Ever\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLate is a synonym for dead which is a euphemism\u003cbr\u003efor ever. Ever is a double-edged word, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eat once itself and its own opposite: always\u003cbr\u003eand always some other time. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the category of cleave, then. To cut and to cling to, \u003cbr\u003esomewhat mournfully...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrenda Shaughnessy \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Okinawa, Japan and grew up in Southern California. She is the author of three books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eHuman Dark with Sugar\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the James Laughlin Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and \u003ci\u003eOur Andromeda\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e\"100 Notable Books of 2013.\" She is an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University, Newark, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brenda Shaughnessy","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44816584081450,"sku":"9781556594878","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44816584114218,"sku":"9781556595226","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/so-much-synth-8292022.jpg?v=1789040707","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/so-much-synth","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}