Liquid Flesh: New & Selected Poems by Brenda Shaughnessy Philip Gross The poems deal in forms

The poems deal in forms of influence: in seduction and persuasion

the extinction of species

‘Theatrical

These extraordinary poems

‘A direct approach

Liquid Flesh: New & Selected Poems by Brenda Shaughnessy Philip Gross The poems deal in formsSpanning twenty years and five collections, Brenda Shaughnessys Liquid Flesh: New & Selected Poems introduces new readers to one of Americas most audacious and thrilling poets. Since debuting with the sexy swagger of 1999s Interior with Sudden Joy, Shaughnessy has honed a poetic voice rich with contradictions: her poems are simultaneously tricky and blindingly honest, sensual and grief stricken, coy and utterly self possessed. She is a moralist with a