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Brenda Shaughnessy's
first collection of poems,

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Interior with Sudden
Joy, was nominated

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for several awards, and a
finalist for the 2000 Lambda

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Literary Award in Poetry.

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FSG's press release called
her "queer, cool, excited,

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and pissed," and her version
of post-feminism involving

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Shirley Temples and
Shirley Temple's pimp

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certainly testifies to this.

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But Shaughnessy's
irreverence is only one

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of her many constructions.

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Interior with
Sudden Joy weaves--

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by way of exactitude and
careful installation--

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the lightness of
contemporary love motifs

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with psychoanalytical,
baroque, and classical notions

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of pleasure.

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The singular attention
paid to every word

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creates a glittering
soundscape, but something else

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rises to the surface.

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The boundedness of words
themselves, what they reveal,

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and what they repress.

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Above all, Shaughnessy isolates
those desires inside language.

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How a word comes to, in
the mouth and in the mind.

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Ladies and gentlemen,
Brenda Shaughnessy.

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[APPLAUSE]