Title: Interior with Sudden Joy
First published: 1999
Description: Interior with Sudden Joy introduces a poet at once hyper-contemporary and archaic, erotic, indecorous, and extravagant like nobody else. Brenda Shaughnessy's poems seek outrageous avenues of access - funny, vernacular, ulterior - to the heart, "this strumpet muscle under your breast describing / you minutely, Volupt, volupt." This first collection is the next illogical step in love poetry.
Subjects: Poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
LC classification: PS3569.H353 I55 1999