Our Andromeda

"A heady, infectious celebration."—The New Yorker"Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip . . . consistently wry, and ever savvy."—Harvard ReviewBrenda Shaughnessy's heartrending third collection explores dark subjects—trauma, childbirth, loss of faith—and stark questions: What is the use of pain and grief? Is there another dimension in which our suffering might be transformed? Can we change ourselves? Yearning for new gods, new worlds, and new rules, she imagines a parallel existence in the galaxy of Andromeda.From "Our Andromeda":Cal, faster than the lightest light,so much faster than love,and our Andromeda, that dream,I can feel it living in us like weare its home. Like it remembers usfrom its own childhood.Oh, maybe, Cal, we are home,if God will let us live here,with Andromeda inside us,doesn't it seem we belong?Now...