Interior with sudden joy / Brenda Shaughnessy.
"Interior with Sudden Joy introduces a poet at once hyper-contemporary and archaic, erotic, indecorous, and extravagant like nobody else. Brenda Shaughnessy's poems seek outrageous avenues of access - funny, vernacular, ulterior - to the heart, "this strumpet muscle under your breast describing / yo...
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Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
1999.
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Edition: | First edition. |
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Physical Description: | 83 pages ; 22 cm |
Format: | Book |
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"Interior with Sudden Joy introduces a poet at once hyper-contemporary and archaic, erotic, indecorous, and extravagant like nobody else. Brenda Shaughnessy's poems seek outrageous avenues of access - funny, vernacular, ulterior - to the heart, "this strumpet muscle under your breast describing / you minutely, Volupt, volupt."" "This first collection is the next illogical step in love poetry."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Call Number: | PS3569.H353 I55 1999 |
ISBN: | 0374177120 9780374177126 9780374526986 0374526982 |