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Playing the Octopus

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Informationen zum Autor Mary O'Malley was born in Connamara and educated at University College, Galway. She has since published six other books including a New and Selected . Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Experimental new collection from award-winning Irish poet

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Authors &apos, Mary malley, O&apos, Mary Omalley, Mary O'Malley, Mary O''malley
Publisher External catalogue UK
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 28.07.2016
 
EAN 9781784102807
ISBN 978-1-78410-280-7
No. of pages 96
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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