Tanya

• Utgivningsdatum: 2024-04-25
• Mått: 231 x 179 x 10 mm
• Vikt: 254 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Antal sidor: 112
• Förlag: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• ISBN: 9781780377087

• Poesi

Brenda Shaughnessy is an Okinawan-Irish American poet who grew up in Southern California. After graduating from University of California, Santa Cruz, she moved to New York City where she received an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University and published her first book, Interior with Sudden Joy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Her six full-length collections include The Octopus Museum (Knopf, 2019), a New York Times Notable Book, and Our Andromeda (Copper Canyon, 2012), a finalist for the Griffin International Prize, the PEN/Open Book Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Prize. Her first UK publication, Liquid Flesh: New & Selected Poems, was published by Bloodaxe in 2022. Her sixth collection, Tanya, was published by Knopf in the US in 2023 and is due from Bloodaxe in April 2024. Recipient of a 2018 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a 2013 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, she is Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. She lives with her husband, the poet Craig Morgan Teicher, and their two children, in New Jersey.

Juicy models of lyrical reasoning, [Shaughnessy’s poems] bring together wordplay and rhetoric… The poems have a fertile restlessness. They don’t settle into epiphanies but continue layering, swerving, branching, reconsidering… Her vibrant dives into the possibilities of [the self] invest it with multitudes… In the Shaughnessy multiverse, everything contains everything else, or has that capacity… Femaleness and iterations of feminism provide a framework for Tanya. The collection can be seen in part as a version of midlife stock-taking, via odes to women artists, mentors, lovers, frenemies and former selves… Shaughnessy [traces] her own derivation and education through myriad mothers, stretching definitions of “mother” to include frictions, crushes, heartbreaks and inspirations that became part of her DNA… Chief among the new book’s many subjects are love, absence and loss: how to live with or without them… [Shaughnessy] writes about love as being “timelessness itself”. This is a book in which the poet’s ability “to imagine and to wonder / fiercely” never flags.

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