| Description |
xi, 68 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note |
"This is a Borzoi Book"--Title page verso. |
| Contents |
Identity & community (There is no "I" in "sea") -- No traveler returns -- Gift planet -- Wellness rituals -- There was no before (take arms against a sea of troubles) -- The home team -- Irreversible change -- Dream of brown -- I want the world -- Evening prayer for humans -- The dessert I didn't have -- Bakamonotako -- G-breed -- The idea of others -- Sel de la terre, sel de mer -- Home school -- Notes on an old holiday -- Map of itself -- Thinking lessons -- Our beloved infinite crapulence -- Letters from the elders -- New time change -- Letter from an elder -- Nest -- Blueberries for Cal -- Are women people? -- Honeymoon -- Our zero waiver -- Our family on the run. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry -- Women authors.
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| Genre |
Poetry.
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| ISBN |
9780525655657 (hardcover) |
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0525655654 (hardcover) |
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