{"product_id":"so-much-synth-paperback","title":"So Much Synth - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrenda Shaughnessy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Over the last two decades Shaughnessy has stripped herself down to a voice that can sing plainly about disappointment and love in hard circumstances and the lost art of the mix tape.\"--\u003cem\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Shaughnessy finds ever new ways to rend the heart in this biting and poignant anthropological study of girlhood and adolescence.\"--\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSubversions of idiom and cliché punctuate Brenda Shaughnessy's fourth collection as she approaches middle age and revisits the memories, romances, and music of adolescence. \u003cem\u003eSo Much Synth\u003c\/em\u003e is a brave and ferocious collection composed of equal parts femininity, pain, pleasure, and synthesizer. While Shaughnessy tenderly winces at her youthful excesses, we can humbly catch glimpses of our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom \"I Have A Time Machine\" \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBut unfortunately it can only travel into the future\u003cbr\u003eat a rate of one second per second, \u003cbr\u003ewhich seems slow to the physicists and to the grant\u003cbr\u003ecommittees and even to me.\u003cbr\u003eBut I manage to get there, time after time, to the next\u003cbr\u003emoment and to the next . . .\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrenda Shaughnessy \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of three books of poetry, including \u003cem\u003eHuman Dark with Sugar\u003c\/em\u003e (Copper Canyon), winner of the James Laughlin Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and \u003cem\u003eOur Andromeda \u003c\/em\u003e(Copper Canyon), which was one of \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e's \"100 Notable Books of 2013.\" She is an Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University, Newark, and lives in Brooklyn with her husband, son, and daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrenda 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 31, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50326582558957,"sku":"9781556595226","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/IV-MlE3m8i9781556595226.webp?v=1784865564","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/so-much-synth-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}