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Playing the octopus
- Title
- Playing the octopus / Mary O'Malley.
- Author
- O'Malley, Mary, 1954-
- Publication
- Manchester : Carcanet Poetry, 2016.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 16-5880 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 1 volume; 22 cm
- Summary
- In Playing the Octopus, her eighth collection of poems, Mary OMalleys sensitivity to the spirit of Irelands 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, OMalley 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 OMalley tests the mythologies of motherhood and femininity (no mother is ever good enough until shes 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 OMalleys translations of the Irish poet Seán Ó Ríordáin and the Spaniard Federico García Lorca.
- Subjects
- Call Number
- JFD 16-5880
- ISBN
- 9781784102807 (pbk.)
- 1784102806 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 960039686
- Author
- O'Malley, Mary, 1954- author.
- Title
- Playing the octopus / Mary O'Malley.
- Publisher
- Manchester : Carcanet Poetry, 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 16-5880