Brenda Shaughnessy
Brenda Shaughnessy (b. 1970 Okinawa, Japan) is an American poet.
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[edit] Life
She grew up in Southern California. She received her B.A. in literature and women's studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and M.F.A. at Columbia University.
Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, BOMB,[1] Conjunctions, McSweeney’s, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere.
She is the poetry editor at Tin House magazine,[2] and currently teaches creative writing at Princeton University,[3] and Eugene Lang College at the New School. She lives in Brooklyn, with her husband and son.
[edit] Awards
- Human Dark with Sugar, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, finalist for National Book Critics Circle award[4]
- Interior with Sudden Joy, which was nominated for the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, a Lambda Literary Award, and the Norma Farber First Book Award.
- Bunting Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
- Japan/U.S. Friendship Commission Artist Fellowship.
[edit] Work
- "I'm Over the Moon". poets.org (The New School, Tishman Auditorium). October 19, 2007. http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19793.
- "Why is the Color of Snow?". poets.org. http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19794.
- "What's Uncanny; Fortune; Mistress Formika; Project for a Fainting". The Boston Review. December/January 1998/1999. http://bostonreview.net/BR23.6/shaughnessy.php.
- "Me in Paradise". Nerve. July 2000. http://www.nerve.com/poetry/shaughnessy/meinparadise/index.asp?page=2.
- "Dear Gonglya; Your One Good Dress". Salon. http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/shaughnessy/index.html.
- "Epithalament", Fort.org
[edit] Poetry Books
- Human Dark with Sugar. Copper Canyon Press. 2008. ISBN 9781556592768.
- Interior with Sudden Joy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2000. ISBN 9780374526986.
[edit] Anthologies
- David Lehman, ed (2008). "Voluptuary". The Best American Erotic Poems. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781416537465. http://books.google.com/?id=HXISmot3DdkC&pg=PA213&dq=brenda+shaughnessy.
- Michael Dumanis, Mark Doty, Cate Marvin, ed (2006). Legitimate dangers: American poets of the new century. Sarabande Books. ISBN 9781932511291.
- Rita Dove, Robert Bly, David Lehman, ed (2000). The Best American Poetry 2000. Scribner. ISBN 9780684842813.
- Victoria M. Chang, ed (2004). Asian American poetry: the next generation. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252071744.
- Brenda Shaughnessy, ed (2008). Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House. Tin House Books. ISBN 9780979419898.
[edit] Reviews
Richard Howard: "The resonance of Shaughnessy's poems is that of someone speaking out of an ecstasy and into an ecstasy, momentarily pausing to let us in on the fun, the pain."
As I read Shaughnessy’s poems, I can’t help hearing not only her poetic ancestors but Abbott and Costello as well: not the film bumblers being chased by Frankenstein but the double-talkers whose “Who’s on First?” routine is often imitated, never duplicated. People are funny. Words are funnier. And poems, when they’re at their smartest and best-made, are funniest of all.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.bombsite.com/issues/93/articles/2765
- ^ McCormack, Win; Spillman, Rob; MacArthur, Holly; Montgomery, Lee; Wildgen, Michelle (2008-02-28). Tin House: Off the Grid;. ISBN 9780979419843. http://books.google.com/books?id=2nf8GQAACAAJ&dq=brenda+shaughnessy.
- ^ http://www.princeton.edu/arts/arts_at_princeton/creative_writing/professor_bios/shaughnessy/
- ^ Viva Staff (January 26, 2009). "Roberto Bolaño finalist for National Book Critics Circle award". The New York Daily NEws. http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2009/01/26/2009-01-26_roberto_bolao_finalist_for_national_book.html.
- ^ DAVID KIRBY (October 24, 2008). "Cracking Wise". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/books/review/Kirby-t.html.
[edit] External links
- Robert N. Casper (March 2004). "INTERVIEW WITH BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY". Jubilat 8. http://www.jubilat.org/n8/shaughnessy.html.
