{"product_id":"liquid-flesh-by-brenda-shaughnessy-9781780376295","title":"Liquid Flesh","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpanning twenty years and five collections, Brenda Shaughnessy's \u003ci\u003eLiquid Flesh: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e introduces new readers to one of America's most capacious and thrilling poets.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSince debuting with the sexy swagger of 1999's \u003ci\u003eInterior with Sudden Joy\u003c\/i\u003e, Shaughnessy has honed a poetic voice rich with contradictions: her poems are simultaneously tricky and blindingly honest, sensual and grief-stricken, coy and utterly self-possessed. She is a moralist with a profound sense of play, taking the patriarchy and the malevolent powers-that-be to task, as in her seminal poem 'I'm Over the Moon':\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'I don't like what the moon is supposed to do.\/ Confuse me, ovulate me,\/\/ spoon-feed me longing. A kind of ancient \/ date-rape drug. So I'll howl at you, moon,\/\/ I'm angry. I'll take back the night.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese poems are also, at times, laugh-out-loud funny — like having a bad boyfriend in a good band — though there is always wisdom beyond the punchline. Beginning with the youthful love lyrics of \u003ci\u003eInterior with Sudden Joy\u003c\/i\u003e, and opening onto the wily reckonings of \u003ci\u003eHuman Dark with Sugar\u003c\/i\u003e, the unsparingly fierce mother-love and parallel worlds of \u003ci\u003eOur Andromeda\u003c\/i\u003e, the reverb-soaked coming of age and coming to consciousness of \u003ci\u003eSo Much Synth\u003c\/i\u003e, the dark sci-fi prophecy of \u003ci\u003eThe Octopus Museum\u003c\/i\u003e, before new poems that pay homage to women artists and their pathbreaking art, \u003ci\u003eLiquid Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e collects an unprecedented body of work unlike anything else in contemporary poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596767477996,"sku":"9781780376295","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7ff1a3a6f65ae1f377efd1c3217608ce.jpg?v=1777956173","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/liquid-flesh-by-brenda-shaughnessy-9781780376295","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}