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Bakamonotako

Brenda Shaughnessy

‘Bakamonotako felt she didn’t need all eight of her appendages. Four would do.’

Brenda Shaughnessy

Brenda Shaughnessy is the author of Our Andromeda (one of The New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2013), Human Dark with Sugar, and Interior with Sudden Joy. Her poems appeared in Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, The Paris Review and elsewhere. A 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, she teaches at Rutgers-Newark.

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