Human Dark with Sugar
Winner of the James Laughlin Award, on desire, disappointment and the failures of the body, in a voice that manages funny and wounded within a single line.
Shaughnessy’s second collection, winner of the James Laughlin Award, gathers poems about desire, disappointment and the failures of the body, written in a voice that manages to be funny and wounded inside a single line. The long sequence “One Love Story, Eight Takes” retells the same relationship until the retelling becomes the subject, which is the book’s method everywhere else too.
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Maria Popova
That is what poet Brenda Shaughnessy explores in her sweeping poem “One Love Story, Eight Takes,” found in her collection Human Dark with Sugar (public library) and framed by an epigraph from Roland Barthes:
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