Tanya by Brenda Shaughnessy Ian Humphreys rich with anti-logic and harnessed

rich with anti-logic and harnessed to the power of something we used to call magic

but also and more pertinently to the real experience of English living so clear-eyed and so

Ian McMillan is among Britain’s most treasured living poets

Audrey Molloy’s poems move between Ireland and Australia

It has been hard to confine him to this limiting measure because he still

Tanya by Brenda Shaughnessy Ian Humphreys rich with anti-logic and harnessedBrenda Shaughnessy is one of Americas most audacious and thrilling poets. In Tanya she weaves a tapestry of literary heritage and intimate reflection as she pays tribute to women artists and mentors, and circles the mysteries of friendship, love, art, and loss. In this powerful gathering of poems about her own influencers as well as poems on Surrealist artist Meret Oppenheim and the young choreographer Lauren Lovette Shaughnessy dwells in memories of