The Next Illogical Step In Love Poetry

"The next illogical step
in love poetry
The most inscrutable beautiful names in this world
always do sound like diseases.
It is because they are engorged.
G., I am a fool.
What we feel in the solar plexus wrecks us.
Halfway squatting on a crate where feeling happened.
Caresses."
--from "Dear Gonglya,"

At once hyper-contemporary and archaic, erotic, indecorous, and extravagant like nobody else, Brenda Shaughnessy seeks outrageous avenues of access to the heart, "This strumpet muscle under your breast describing / you minutely, Volupt, volupt."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 05/01/2000
ISBN: 9780374526986
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.40d

Review Citations: Library Journal 04/15/2000 pg. 95