{"product_id":"so-much-synth-9781556595226","title":"So Much Synth","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"Copper Canyon Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359613321559,"sku":"9781556595226","price":17.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781556595226.jpg?v=1754125181","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/so-much-synth-9781556595226","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}