So Much Synth

"Shaughnessy's particular genius . . . is utterly poetic, but essayistic in scope." The New Yorker "Brenda Shaughnessy's work is a good place to start for any passionate woman feeling daunted by poetry." Cosmopolitan "Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip . . . consistently wry, and ever savvy." Harvard Review Subversions of idiom and cliché punctuate Shaughnessy's fourth collection as she approaches middle age and revisits the memories, romances, and music of adolescence. So Much