{"product_id":"tanya-poems-hardcover","title":"Tanya: Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrenda Shaughnessy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this powerful gathering of poems about her own \"influencers,\" as well as poems on Dadaist artist Méret Oppenheim and the young choreographer Lauren Lovette, Brenda Shaughnessy dwells in memories of the women who set her on her artistic path. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBRENDA SHAUGHNESSY is the Okinawan-Irish American author of five previous books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eThe Octopus Museum\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOur Andromeda\u003c\/i\u003e. The recipient of a 2018 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers University-Newark, Shaughnessy lives with her family in New Jersey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 9.21 x 6.85 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 07, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47352722227449,"sku":"9780593535936","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/sA77mILiD9780593535936.webp?v=1769815528","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/tanya-poems-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}