Playing the octopus /

Playing the octopus /

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Author / Creator:	O'Malley, Mary, 1954- author.
Uniform title:	Poems. Selections
Imprint:	Manchester : Carcanet Press Ltd, 2016. ©2016
Description:	95 pages ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	English poetry -- Irish authors. English poetry -- Women authors. English poetry -- Irish authors. English poetry -- Women authors. Poetry.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10924896

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ISBN:	9781784102807 1784102806
Summary:	In Playing the Octopus, her eighth collection of poems, Mary O'Malley's sensitivity to the spirit of Ireland's west coast is as attuned as ever. In a world both earthen and dreamlike, bodily and mythical, a trout is seen to 'swallow light through his skin', a wolf 'howls the great open vowel of his need', and in the emptiness where a tree once stood, 'a tree-shaped brightness dances'. Over the course of the collection, O'Malley twins the Irish west coast with the American east coast, Inis Mór with Coney Island, the parish with the metropolis, the pipes with the axe, each offering its own comfort and wonder. Sylvia Plath, Lois Lane and Antigone feature in an unlikely cast of heroines through which O'Malley tests the mythologies of motherhood and femininity ('no mother is ever good enough until she's dead', writes the poet, with characteristic wit). Playing the Octopus is a body of writing buoyed by the redemptive power and sustaining joy of music, and it closes with O'Malley's translations of the Irish poet Seán Ó Ríordáin and the Spaniard Federico García Lorca.

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Call Number:	PR6065.M36 A6 2016
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