The octopus game / Nicky Beer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beer, Nicky, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

75 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : Carnegie Mellon University Press, ©2015.

Summary:

Highly intelligent and a master of camouflage, the octopus is a creature destined to thrive in the poetic ecosystem. In The Octopus Game, the figure of the octopus shape-shifts and reinvents itself throughout ocean depths, tide pools, aquariums, gardens, movies, pulp novels, fine art, and nightmares. Nicky Beer acts as the strange documentarian recording the bizarre, beautiful, and disturbing habits of creatures for whom subterfuge and mimicry are a means of survival.

Contents:

1

Octopus vulgatis 13

Frost on the Octopus 15

Ventouse Sous Verre 16

The Floating Girl 17

Please indicate the total number of sexual partners (male or/and female): 18

Annotations 19

The God of Translation 21

Boys in Dresses 22

Skin Trade 24

Giant Squid Caught on Film! 27

2

Scene 43, Take 1: Interior, Sushi Restaurant 31

Pescados de Pesadillas 33

Nature Film, Directed by Martin Scorsese 34

Crackpot Arctic Octopus 37

Rimbaud's Kraken 39

Béla on the Shore, 1955 41

Marlene Dietrich Reads Rilke on the Lido, 1937 43

Phlogiston Footage 46

3

Harvard Med Field Trip 51

Laboratory Model 52

Catalog Note: Artifact of Venusian Handicraft 53

Black Hole Itinerary 54

Population 55

Octopus Dream #3 56

Poem 57

The Burn 58

Oblation 59

Woman in a Stanza 61

Restoration Portrait 63

4

Unmapping Natchez 67

Rural Spring Poem 68

Prairie Octopus, Awake 69

Octopus Visiting Your Garden 70

Folk Remedy 71

Ad Hominem 72

The Octopus Game 74.

ISBN:

0887485936

9780887485930

OCLC:

894931392