Interior with Sudden Joy Poems Author:Brenda Shaughnessy The Next Illogical Step In Love Poetry — "The next illogical step — in love poetry — The most inscrutable beautiful names in this world — always do sound like diseases. — It is because they are engorged. — G., I am a fool. — What we feel in the solar plexus wrecks us. — Halfway squatting on a crate w... more »here feeling happened.
Caresses."
--from "Dear Gonglya,"
At once hyper-contemporary and archaic, erotic, indecorous, and extravagant like nobody else, Brenda Shaughnessy seeks outrageous avenues of access to the heart, "This strumpet muscle under your breast describing / you minutely, Volupt, volupt."« less