Human Dark with Sugar Brenda Shaughnessy s poems bristle with imperatives confuse me spoon feed me stop the madness decide There are direct orders in her first few pages than in six weeks of boot campOnly Shaughnessy s

Brenda Shaughnessy s poems bristle with imperatives confuse me, spoon feed me, stop the madness, decide There are direct orders in her first few pages than in six weeks of boot campOnly Shaughnessy s kidding Or she is and she isn t If you just want to boss people around, you re a control freak, but if you can joke about it, then your bossiness is leavened by Brenda Shaughnessy s poems bristle with imperatives confuse me, spoon feed me, stop the madness, decide There are direct orders in her first few pages than in six weeks of boot campOnly Shaughnessy s kidding Or she is and she isn t If you just want to boss people around, you re a control freak, but if you can joke about it, then your bossiness is leavened by a yeast that s all too infrequent in contemporary poetry, that of humor New York Times Shaughnessy s voice is smart, sexy, self aware, hip consistently wry, and ever savvy Harvard Review Brenda Shaughnessy writes like the love child of Mina Loy and Frank O Hara Exquisite Corpse In its worried acceptance of contradiction, its absolute refusal of sentimentality and its acute awareness of time s scarce infinity, this is a brilliant, beautiful and essential continuation of the metaphysical verse tradition Publishers Weekly, starred review Human Dark with Sugar is both wonderfully inventive studded with the strangenesses of snownovas and flukeprints and emotionally precise Her I is madly multidexterous urgent, comic, mischievous and the result is a new topography of the debates between heart and head Matthea Harvey, a judge for the Laughlin Award Seriously playful, sexy, sharp edged, and absolutely commanding throughout.Here you ll meet an I boldly ready to take on the world and just itching to give You some smart directives So listen up Library JournalIn her second
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Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa, Japan, in 1970 and grew up in Southern California She received her B.A in literature and women s studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and she earned an M.F.A at Columbia University.She is the author of Human Dark with Sugar Copper Canyon Press, 2008 , winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Interior with Sudden Joy Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1999 , which was nominated for the PEN Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, a Lambda Literary Award, and the Norma Farber First Book Award Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Bomb, Boston Review, Conjunctions, McSweeney s, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere.About her work, the poet Richard Howard writes The resonance of Shaughnessy s poems is that of someone speaking out of an ecstasy and into an ecstasy, momentarily pausing to let us in on the fun, the pain Shaughnessy is the recipient of a Bunting Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and a Japan U.S Friendship Commission Artist Fellowship She is the poetry editor at Tin House magazine and currently teaches creative writing at Princeton University and Eugene Lang College at the New School.