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 humour) envisions an age where cephalopods might rule over humankind, a fate she suggests we may just deserve after destroying their oceans. These heart-breaking, 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.
| ISBN: | 9780525655657 |
| Publication date: | 1st April 2019 |
| Author: | Brenda Shaughnessy |
| Publisher: | Knopf an imprint of Alfred A. Knopf |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 96 pages |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism |
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.
The Octopus Museum features in the following genres: Literature: history and criticism
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The Octopus Museum was written by Brenda Shaughnessy and published by Knopf an imprint of Alfred A. Knopf
The Octopus Museum has 96 pages