Octopus Museum

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.

Aceasta colectie de poezii feministe indraznete si sclipitoare, imagineaza ceea ce vine dupa epoca noastra actuala de distrugere a mediului, rasism, sexism si politici de diviziune. Poezii din Muzeul caracatitei, informate de mestesugul lui Brenda Shaughnessy ca poet si de cele mai grave temeri ale ei ca mama in aceste pagini, vedem ca ceea ce a fost odata o teama generalizata pentru copiii nostri (accidente de masina, caderea dintr-un copac) este acum hiper-rezonabila, specifica si multipla: impuscaturi scolare, atac nuclear, pierderea ingrijirea sanatatii, o planeta poluata.