{"product_id":"tanya-brenda-shaughnessy-9780593535936","title":"Tanya: Poems","description":"\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this powerful gathering of poems about her own \"influencers,\" as well as poems on Dadaist artist M駻et 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brenda Shaughnessy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0593535936\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593535936\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/07\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.85w x 0.87d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2023 pg. 109\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/29\/2023","brand":"Brenda Shaughnessy","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44070770802943,"sku":"9780593535936","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d7ffdd72-ecde-47f3-988c-2c1751bd3dde.jpg?v=1685432245","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tanya-brenda-shaughnessy-9780593535936","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}