# So Much Synth - Hardcover

by **Brenda Shaughnessy** (Author)

"Shaughnessy's particular genius . . . is utterly poetic, but essayistic in scope."--_The New Yorker_

"Brenda Shaughnessy's work is a good place to start for any passionate woman feeling daunted by poetry." --_Cosmopolitan_

"Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip . . . consistently wry, and ever savvy."--_Harvard Review_

Subversions of idiom and cliché punctuate Shaughnessy's fourth collection as she approaches middle age and revisits the memories, romances, and music of adolescence. _So Much Synth_ is 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.

**From "Never Ever"**

_Late is a synonym for dead which is a euphemism  
for ever. Ever is a double-edged word,_

_at once itself and its own opposite: always  
and always some other time._

_In the category of cleave, then. To cut and to cling to,  
somewhat mournfully..._

**Brenda Shaughnessy** was born in Okinawa, Japan and grew up in Southern California. She is the author of three books of poetry, including _Human Dark with Sugar_, winner of the James Laughlin Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and _Our Andromeda_, which was a _New York Times Book Review_ "100 Notable Books of 2013." She is an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University, Newark, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

### Author Biography

Brenda Shaughnessy: Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa, Japan and grew up in Southern California. She is the author of three books of poetry, including Human Dark with Sugar (Copper Canyon), winner of the James Laughlin Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Our Andromeda (Copper Canyon), which was a New York Times Book Review "100 Notable Books of 2013." Shaughnessy's poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Harper's, The Nation, The Rumpus, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University, Newark, and lives in Brooklyn with her husband, son and daughter.

**Number of Pages:** 88

**Dimensions:** 0.6 x 9.1 x 5.9 IN

**Publication Date:** May 03, 2016

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