"The next illogical step in love poetry The most inscrutable beautiful names in this world always do sound like diseases. It is because they are engorged. G., I am a fool. What we feel in the solar plexus wrecks us. Halfway squatting on a crate where feeling happened. Caresses." --from "Dear Gonglya," At once hyper-contemporary and archaic, erotic, indecorous, and extravagant like nobody else, Brenda Shaughnessy seeks outrageous avenues of access to the heart, "This strumpet muscle under your breast describing / you minutely, Volupt, volupt."
Author Biography
Brenda Shaughnessy was raised in California and is a graduate of Columbia University's writing program. She lives in New York City.
