The Octopus Museum

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Author: Brenda Shaughnessy

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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. show more

Additional information

Weight 374 g
Author

Brenda Shaughnessy

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

Binding

Hardback

ISBN-10

0525655654

Dimensions

188 x 239 x 21

Language

English

Country of Pub

United States

Book Condition

New

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