Name: The Octopus Museum by Brenda Shaughnessy
SKU: 9781524711498
Price: 18.00 USD
Availability: InStock

The Octopus Museum by Brenda Shaughnessy

$18.00

Now in paperback, this collection of bold and scathingly beautiful feminist poems imagines what comes after our current age of environmental destruction, racism, sexism, and divisive politics.

In stock

SKU: 9781524711498 Categories: Books, Poetry

Description

Informed as much by Brenda Shaughnessy’s worst fears as a mother as they are by her superb craft as a poet, 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 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.

The Octopus Museum by Brenda Shaughnessy