{"product_id":"9781556595226","title":"So Much Synth","description":"\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.\"— \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\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.\"— \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\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. \u003ci\u003eSo Much Synth\u003c\/i\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 \u003cb\u003eFrom \"I Have A Time Machine\":\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eBut unfortunately it can only travel into the future at a rate of one second per second,\u003cbr\u003ewhich seems slow to the physicists and to the grant committees and even to me.\u003cbr\u003eBut I manage to get there, time after time, to the next moment and to the next . . .\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eBrenda Shaughnessy \u003c\/b\u003e is the author of three books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eHuman Dark with Sugar\u003c\/i\u003e (Copper Canyon), winner of the James Laughlin Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and \u003ci\u003eOur Andromeda \u003c\/i\u003e (Copper Canyon), which was one of \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055773565168,"sku":"9781556595226","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556595226_p0.jpg?v=1763755071","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556595226","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}