Tanya : poems / Brenda Shaughnessy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaughnessy, Brenda, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Biographical poetry.

Physical Description:

x, 100 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.

Summary:

"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 Meret 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 into her generative core, exposing moments of spiritual and intellectual awakening, her love of art and the written word, and her sense of the life force itself, which is ignited by the conversation-across time and space-with other women"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Moving Faraway

Tell Our Mothers We Tell Ourselves the Story We Believe Is Ours

The Impossible Lesbian Love Object(s)

On The Shaded Line / Lauren Lovette

Who Sings Whose Songs?

On Loss of Feathers / Ursula von Rydingsvard

On Romeu, "My Deer" / Berlinde De Bruyckere

For the Matter to Mean and the Meaning Matter

The Artist Jessica Rankin

She Stands

The Poets Are Dying

Afterlife

Urv Predicts the Pres(id)ent

What Have I Done?

II. Coursework

III. Tanya

I. What are we if we stop

II. "You"

my friend I made and lost, I did not write

III. An old spark may stay true, if you want

IV. If only humor weren't so desperate

V. Is there an empirical me ruling VI I learned new hell on my own

VII. If you scratch the surface of writing

VIII. To fill a page to open a mind

IX. Your need is yours, I'm not grateful

X. "Ruin" is "I run"

XI. That taught me to read other friends later: if they bailed

XII. Locked in, every key sets two free.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi book" -- title page verso.

Other Format:

Online version: Shaughnessy, Brenda. Tanya

ISBN:

9780593535936

0593535936

9781524712273

1524712272

OCLC:

1319083462