So Much Synth Goldsmiths Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2021) A generation ago

A generation ago

This book is a collection of famous love songs

and from Singapore

If human beings disappeared instantaneously from the Earth

In this perennial bestseller

So Much Synth Goldsmiths Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2021) A generation ago"Shaughnessy's particular genius . . . is utterly poetic, but essayistic in scope." The New Yorker "Brenda Shaughnessy's work is a good place to start for any passionate woman feeling daunted by poetry." Cosmopolitan "Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy, self aware, hip . . . consistently wry, and ever savvy." Harvard Review Subversions of idiom and clich punctuate Shaughnessy's fourth collection as she approaches middle age and revisits the memories,