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Brenda Shaughnessy

Brenda Shaughnessy’s books are Interior with Sudden Joy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999), Human Dark with Sugar (Copper Canyon Press, 2008) and Our Andromeda (Copper Canyon Press, 2012).

Artless by Brenda Shaughnessy

is my heart. A stranger / berry there never was, / tartless. / / Gone sour in the sun, / in the sunroom or moonroof, / roofless. / / No poetry. Plain. No / fresh, special recipe / to bless. / / All I’ve ever made / with these hands / and life, less / / substance, more rind. / Mo...

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