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The award-winning poet weaves a tapestry of literary heritage and intimate reflection as she pays tribute to women artists and mentors, and circles the ongoing mysteries of friendship, love, art, and loss.

In this powerful gathering of poems about her own influencers, as well as poems on Dadaist artist Méret Oppenheim and the young choreographer Lauren Lovette, Brenda 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, Everyone's 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 Shaughnessy's 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 int

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      Publisher: Random House USA Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 07/03/2023
      ISBN13: 9780593535936, 978-0593535936
      ISBN10: 0593535936
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      Book Synopsis
      The award-winning poet weaves a tapestry of literary heritage and intimate reflection as she pays tribute to women artists and mentors, and circles the ongoing mysteries of friendship, love, art, and loss.

      In this powerful gathering of poems about her own influencers, as well as poems on Dadaist artist Méret Oppenheim and the young choreographer Lauren Lovette, Brenda 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, Everyone's 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 Shaughnessy's 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 int

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