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Tanya Brenda Shaughnessy

Tanya By Brenda Shaughnessy

Tanya by Brenda Shaughnessy

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Brenda Shaughnessy is one of Americas most audacious and thrilling poets. In Tanya she weaves a tapestry of literary heritage and intimate reflection as she pays tribute to women artists and mentors, and circles the mysteries of friendship, love, art, and loss. Tanya is her sixth collection, her first since Liquid Flesh: New & Selected Poems.

Tanya Summary

Tanya by Brenda Shaughnessy

Brenda Shaughnessy is one of Americas most audacious and thrilling poets. In Tanya she weaves a tapestry of literary heritage and intimate reflection as she pays tribute to women artists and mentors, and circles the mysteries of friendship, love, art, and loss. In this powerful gathering of poems about her own influencers as well as poems on Surrealist artist Meret Oppenheim and the young choreographer Lauren Lovette Shaughnessy dwells in memories of the women who set her on her artistic path. In the title poem, she explores the eternal quality of an intense touchstone relationship with Tanya, about whom she writes, 'Everyones not you to me Worth loving once, why not now?' We all have our own Tanya, and in this book we meet friends, mentors, sisters, lovers, who inhabit a verse classroom where Shaughnessys passion for literature forged in her own formative studies, as in the poem 'Coursework' is our teacher. In flowing stair-step tercets, Shaughnessy leads us down into her generative core, exposing moments of spiritual and intellectual awakening, her love of art and the written word, and her sense of the life force itself, which is ignited by the conversation across time and space with other women. Tanya is her sixth collection, her first since Liquid Flesh: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2022), which introduced her work to readers in the UK.

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Juicy models of lyrical reasoning, [Shaughnessys poems] bring together wordplay and rhetoric The poems have a fertile restlessness. They dont settle into epiphanies but continue layering, swerving, branching, reconsidering Her vibrant dives into the possibilities of [the self] invest it with multitudes In the Shaughnessy multiverse, everything contains everything else, or has that capacity Femaleness and iterations of feminism provide a framework for Tanya. The collection can be seen in part as a version of midlife stock-taking, via odes to women artists, mentors, lovers, frenemies and former selves Shaughnessy [traces] her own derivation and education through myriad mothers, stretching definitions of mother to include frictions, crushes, heartbreaks and inspirations that became part of her DNA Chief among the new books many subjects are love, absence and loss: how to live with or without them [Shaughnessy] writes about love as being timelessness itself. This is a book in which the poets ability to imagine and to wonder / fiercely never flags. -- Amy Gerstler * New York Times *
A probing, richly rendered collection of poems a reflection on women artists as friends, mentors, and influencers Shaughnessy relentlessly sifts and shifts through our image making, seeking clarity while recognising that life is "not a straight story or a jagged line". Meanwhile, she celebrates the eponymous Tanya, wanting to repair the path between us'. A remarkable book achieving all its ambitions. * Library Journal (starred review) *
Liquid Flesh: New & Selected Poems is a terrific and substantial introduction to Shaughnessys world sensual, subversive, forever dancing around a series of hyper-aware ludic questions. -- Martina Evans * The Irish Times *

About Brenda Shaughnessy

Brenda Shaughnessy is an Okinawan-Irish American poet who grew up in Southern California. After graduating from University of California, Santa Cruz, she moved to New York City where she received an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University and published her first book, Interior with Sudden Joy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Her six full-length collections include The Octopus Museum (Knopf, 2019), a New York Times Notable Book, and Our Andromeda (Copper Canyon, 2012), a finalist for the Griffin International Prize, the PEN/Open Book Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Prize. Her first UK publication, Liquid Flesh: New & Selected Poems, was published by Bloodaxe in 2022. Her sixth collection, Tanya, was published by Knopf in the US in 2023 and is due from Bloodaxe in April 2024. Recipient of a 2018 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a 2013 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, she is Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. She lives with her husband, the poet Craig Morgan Teicher, and their two children, in New Jersey.

Table of Contents

11 In the Year of My Death 13 Out of the rose garden 14 Story 15 (But the roses are savages) 17 The map of this country is made of scars 19 Face to face 21 Witness 23 The Show 24 They brought glass beads 26 Boy with a Turban 27 Letters home 29 Did anyone say what happened to the girl? 31 Loom 33 The weaver makes a pitch 35 (This is not a prayer mat) 36 Shadow Reader 37 The weaver tells the spell 41 Demons Rule 43 What goes of your father? 44 Fly 47 I am Not Alone 49 The Shadow Reader Is Measuring 50 Saying No 51 Pink 52 Chori 54 Where you belong 55 What it grows into 56 Back 57 Redeem 59 (When you hear the wind) 60 The welcome 62 The key 63 Reader 64 The piece 66 For the Minicab Driver Who Looked as if He Needed Feeding 67 For the Woman Who Will Bring Biryani Next Time 68 For the Girl on the Elizabeth Line 69 For the Woman Who Changed Back to a Snake 70 Cross 71 So How Does This Work? I ask 73 (A door full of light) 74 Swiping Left on Larkin 76 Lets Meet in the Place Called Jazz 77 In Which I Am Ghosted by William Blake 79 I Find Faiz Blowing on His Saucer of Tea 81 Away 83 There are no words 84 Next 85 For the girl whose hair escaped 87 What it is like 88 What you can buy with a bangle 89 Naa Ja 90 However 93 It was the fault of the clothes 94 (Only you can tell) 95 They arrive 96 Fold 98 They leave 99 As they go 100 (Take one step forward) 103 They are walking 105 Night Walk with Ghosts, Smitheld 106 Night Walk with Dancing Bones 107 Night Walk by the Canal 108 Night Walk with Lit Windows 110 Night Walk with Fox 111 Night Walk with Blackbird 113 Night Walk with Voices 115 Cranes lean in 116 Seen from a drone, Delhi 118 Seen from a drone, Mumbai 120 Seen from a drone 121 On mute 122 One says this, another says that 123 X 124 (Life chases your feet) 125 Sweeping 127 Writing the Will 129 She Is Trying On the Pre-loved Shoes 130 What Bunny-Auntie Says to Bobby-Uncle 131 She Has an Off-day 132 Bobby Saves Nature to the Cloud 133 Auntie Death Says She Slays 134 Bubbles Experiences a Moment of Dread 135 She Contemplates Her Death 136 Donor 137 Night Visitors 138 The Host 141 The Guest 143 With empty hands 144 You write a window 145 Go to the child 147 (This is the embrace) 148 You are 150 We are holding 151 But the radiance 153 (We turn our faces up) 154 Your Session Has Been Terminated 155 Everywhere the angels 156 I Walk in the Shadow 158 Acknowledgements

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GOR013916908
9781780377087
1780377088
Tanya by Brenda Shaughnessy
Brenda Shaughnessy
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
2024-04-25
112
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