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Cargando... The octopus museum (2019)por Brenda Shaughnessy
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Gorgeous unique language, line by line and poem by poem. It's free verse and yet it falls into comforting familiar rhythms and never sounds false or forced. The subjects are wide ranging, really an extraordinary mix of different varieties of perfectly observed moments. The book itself is gorgeous too, a largish hardcover that's such a treat to hold (and to smell), with an ink-in-water jacket photo that seems just right for the poems inside--not completely random, and yet open to allowing a beautiful chaos in. A collection of poems about how humans are surviving on Earth as exhibits in an Octopus Museum since cephalopods took over the planet. They were mad at humans about pollution,, violence and hatred. They learned our languages and managed to take over computer systems in no time at all due to their intelligence, numerous arms and ability to adapt. This is a strange but overall very good collection. The book cover is the prettiest of all the books I've read this year. I read this book as an electronic advance reading copy provided by Edelweiss, and I have submitted my comments to the publisher via that web site. I love Brenda Shaughnessy's work, and this latest book adds to her accomplishments. There is much middle aged anxiety here, related to the environment specifically and to the world in general, but there is also sly humor and varied wordplay. Highly recommended. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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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"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I still don't remember where I'd heard of this, but everything about the title and premise fo the collection is such a direct hit to my interests: humans have fucked up so badly that the cephalopods have taken over — and these poems are exhibits in a museum of how/why we lost the right to govern ourselves. Filled with a parent's anxiety about environmental destruction, police brutality, consumer capitalism, all the hurts and injustices in this world we bring our children into. It's also full of longing — for opportunities missed, for moments romanticized by nostalgia, for children to have all the good stuff, for there to be no tradeoffs.
I quite loved this. ( )