Still Life With Octopus
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Still Life With Octopus

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Still Life With Octopus

About this book

Tania Hershman's Still Life With Octopus is an exquisitely-attuned second collection, a philosophical and poetic interrogation of the boundaries of animal and human worlds and the intimate nature of time, being and joy. Exploring the slippage between the life of the mind and the life of the body - in particular, those belonging to women – Hershman wonders what might happen if we let go of our preconceptions of both reality and language, taking nothing for granted and starting again from first principles, with fresh eyes.

While trying to fathom our physical and metaphysical existence, Hershman doesn't ignore the other forms of intelligent life we share our planet with; her octopus is envisioned both as a creature within and alongside us and as a way to consider our place as humans within a greater chain of co-existence. Still Life With Octopus is a precisely observed and open-hearted gift of a book.

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Information

Publisher
Nine Arches Press
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781913437428
eBook ISBN
9781913437435
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Arrival
  6. Still Life With Octopus (I)
  7. What You May Be Offered
  8. Fed
  9. Grip
  10. Making New
  11. Territorial Disputes
  12. I am
  13. Catherine the Great Reassesses her Expansionist Policies
  14. Uncertainty
  15. By the River
  16. It was the Epoch
  17. Still Life With Octopus (II)
  18. Nevermuch
  19. What Plays Today
  20. Standardized Patient
  21. And a Clock
  22. And then God
  23. Still Life With Octopus (III)
  24. Psalm for the Seamstresses
  25. Tied
  26. When the Time Comes
  27. Application
  28. Middle of the Night
  29. Tango
  30. Still Life With Octopus (IV)
  31. The Aunts
  32. Resignation
  33. My Moon
  34. Time
  35. Over, Forwards, Back
  36. A Hierarchy of Arms
  37. How to Make a Buttonhole Hand Stitch, 3 minutes 15 seconds, Feb 21, 2018
  38. I’m in charge
  39. Sfat Em
  40. To John Clare, May 2020
  41. Still Life With Octopus (V)
  42. Being Wrong
  43. Play
  44. You Blow Me Away
  45. On the 111 Bus
  46. Learning to be Good
  47. What We Choose To Call You
  48. I have put so many things down
  49. Still Life With Octopus (VI)
  50. I am interested
  51. When I empty to space
  52. And in the arrangement of salt
  53. And then everything
  54. Still Life With Octopus (VII)
  55. Arrival
  56. Notes
  57. Acknowledgements
  58. About the Author