The Octopus Museum
Poems
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Word Count
24,000 words, Guess
Page Count
96 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- ISBN-100525655654
- ISBN-139780525655657
- Library of Congress Control Number2018036768
- OCLC Control Number1045209176
- Better World Books9780525655657
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL27343200M
Classifications
- LCCPS3569.H353A6 2019
- LCCPS3569.H353 A6 2019
Description
"This collection of bold and scathingly beautiful feminist poems imagines what comes after our current age of environmental destruction, racism, sexism, and divisive politics. Informed by Brenda Shaughnessy's craft as a poet and her worst fears as a mother, the poems in The Octopus Museum blaze forth from her pen: in these pages, we see that what was once a generalized fear for our children (car accidents, falling from a tree) is now hyper-reasonable, specific, and multiple: school shootings, nuclear attack, loss of health care, a polluted planet. As Shaughnessy conjures our potential future, she movingly (and often with humor) envisions an age where cephalopods might rule over humankind, a fate she suggests we may just deserve after destroying their oceans. These heartbreaking, terrified poems are the battle cry of a woman who is fighting for the survival of the world she loves, and a stirring exhibition of who we are as a civilization"--
Other Editions
- The Octopus Museum: Poems
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