Word: shaughnessyã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2001-2001
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Shaughnessy??€™s reading followed a different course, as does her poetry, which has found its place not only at The Paris Review, but also with Jonathan Galassi at Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, a publishing house with a stellar poetry list that is not known for frequently taking on young, new poets. At the reading, Shaughnessy described her own language as being made up of ‘sound-bytes,’ and I would add that her poems, in the consistency of their composition, form a scrapbook of those sound bytes, running together in their similarity, each...
...reader is concerned, the fundamental unit of Shaughnessy??€™s work is the momentarily prickly idea, rather than voice, lines, words, sound, or syntax. She jumps from catchy notion to catchy notion, however banal, and those notions are all the reader can hear. It is not necessary to find the clever spots or dig them up as we contemplate what we enjoy; instead, those spots attack us, offering up all the subtlety and pleasure of a bad trombonist. If it seems like the other aspects of her work (the quirky formalism, for instance, which seems to exist merely...
...reading poetry aloud? It happened to be a terrific, obvious question to ask. Trethewey indicated that she needed to hear poetry with her ears, whether she was writing her own or reading that of students. Like her reading, it was a conventional treatment which offered striking contrast to Shaughnessy??€™s. Shaughnessy claimed otherwise, saying that she didn’t need to hear poetry, that she got everything she wanted out of it silently, that she didn’t read her own work aloud to herself, and that she especially didn’t like reading...
...this is where everything fell apart. It was as though my appreciation of her work had been briefly resuscitated during the reading, only to be smothered immediately after. I don’t think that Shaughnessy??€™s poems inhabit an interior voice. Maybe that’s how she prefers to see it, but during this reading I came to the conclusion that there was an audible voice in her poetry which shows itself at its strongest moments. An interior voice conceives itself, but a spoken voice listens to itself, which is exactly what Shaughnessy?...