{"product_id":"9781619320284","title":"Our Andromeda","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A heady, infectious celebration.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip . . . consistently wry, and ever savvy.\"—\u003ci\u003eHarvard Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrenda Shaughnessy's heartrending third collection explores dark subjects—trauma, childbirth, loss of faith—and stark questions: What is the use of pain and grief? Is there another dimension in which our suffering might be transformed? Can we change ourselves? Yearning for new gods, new worlds, and new rules, she imagines a parallel existence in the galaxy of Andromeda.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Our Andromeda\":\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCal, faster than the lightest light,\u003cbr\u003eso much faster than love,\u003cbr\u003eand our Andromeda, that dream,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI can feel it living in us like we\u003cbr\u003eare its home. Like it remembers us\u003cbr\u003efrom its own childhood.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOh, maybe, Cal, we \u003c\/i\u003eare\u003ci\u003e home,\u003cbr\u003eif God will let us live here,\u003cbr\u003ewith Andromeda inside us,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003edoesn't it seem we belong?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow and then, will you help me belong\u003cbr\u003ehere, in this place where you became\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003emy child, and I your mother\u003cbr\u003eout of some instant of mystery\u003cbr\u003eof crash and matter . . . \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrenda Shaughnessy\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Okinawa, Japan and grew up in Southern California. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eHuman Dark with Sugar\u003c\/i\u003e (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), winner of the James Laughlin Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and \u003ci\u003eInterior with Sudden Joy\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 1999). Shaughnessy’s poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry, Harper's, The Nation, The Rumpus, The New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University, Newark, and lives in Brooklyn with her husband, son and daughter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151697297648,"sku":"9781619320284","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781619320284_p0.jpg?v=1763854441","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781619320284","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}