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So much synth / Brenda Shaughnessy.

by Shaughnessy, Brenda, 1970- author.

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Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, c2016.

American poetry -- 21st century.

9781556594878 (hardcover) :

1556594879 (hardcover)

vi, 95 pages ; 24 cm

I have a time machine -- Edgehole. McQueen is dead. Long live McQueen -- Last sleep, best sleep -- Living will -- Artisanal -- Wound -- Dress form -- How it is -- Crushing likeness. Gay Pride weekend, S.F., 1992 -- But I'm the only one -- To my twenty-six-year-old self -- In this economy -- Why I stayed, 1997-2001 -- So much synth. A mix-tape : "Don't you (Forget About Me)" -- A mix tape : the hit singularities -- Is there something I should know? -- Secrets see me coming. Life's work -- Family visit vouchers -- Red tulips, then asphodel -- Please be okay till morning -- Simone at age three, late summer -- Never ever.

"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"--

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