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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shaughnessy, Brenda, 1970-
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Poetry.
Poetry genre.
Genre:
Poetry genre.
Physical Description:83 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Still Life, with Gloxinia
  • Letter to the Crevice Novice
  • Fetish : The Historical Orphan
  • Lure, Lapse
  • Jouissance
  • Vapor through Various Satins
  • Afterlife, Her Empty Dress
  • What's Uncanny
  • Transpassional
  • Swell
  • Dear Gonglya
  • You're Not Home, It's Probably Better
  • Rise
  • Fortune
  • Glossary
  • Middle
  • Your One Good Dress
  • Your Name on It
  • Simulacra
  • Rosarium
  • Lacquer
  • Epithalament
  • Thirteenth Summer
  • Starting Here and Going Back
  • Parallax
  • Cinema Poisoning
  • Postfeminism
  • Wrongbodied
  • Arachnolescence
  • The Question and Its Mark
  • Project for a Fainting
  • Perfect Ending
  • The Lamp Garden
  • Ten Jennies
  • Calling Her Home
  • Musee
  • You Love, You Wonder
  • Voluptuary
  • Mistress Formika
  • Panopticon
  • Ever
  • Sleptember
  • Illumine
  • Interior with Sudden Joy.