Octopus

by Patrick Warner

As apt to channel the confessionalism of Anne Sexton as the red-in-tooth-and-claw nature poetry of Ted Hughes, Patrick Warner’s voice ranges freely from the colloquial to the baroque. Over the past fifteen years, by harboring and honoring such fraught tensions. In Octopus we have him at his best.

Genres: Poetry

66 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 18, 2016

Reviews

[Olive Fellows (abookolive) · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am a poetry neophyte
but I must say
I came for the cover,
stayed for the wordplay.

[Linny · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautifully unique voice and imagery. Was pleasantly surprised by this on-a-whim pick from my library's inventory.

An excerpt from "Abandonment"

We learned togetherness was hunger
that fed on little pat-a-cakes of wonder
that popped up overnight, on either
side of the grassy path, like mushrooms.