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• ISBN 10: 0525655662
• ISBN 13: 9780525655664
• Author: Brenda Shaughnessy

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.

Table of contents:

GALLERY OF A DREAMING SPECIES

SPECIAL COLLECTION: “AS THEY WERE”

“TO SERVE MAN”: RITUALS OF THE LATE ANTHROPOCENE COLONY

FOUND OBJECTS/LOST SUBJECTS: A RETROSPECTIVE

PERMANENT COLLECTION: ARCHIVE OF PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS

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