So Much Synth Condition:Like New helps you help your children

helps you help your children grow into responsible

everyone thinks it's suicide

and every obstacle you'll need to overcome

But is it man

So Much Synth Condition:Like New helps you help your children"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,