The Orgy: An Irish Journey of Passion and Transformation (Paris Press) - Softcover

Rukeyser, Muriel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0963818325 ISBN 13: 9780963818324

Publisher: Paris Press, 1997

Synopsis

Muriel Rukeyser's account of Ireland's Puck Fair ― the last existing pagan festival of the goat ― captures this wild and lush experience and tradition. With a preface by Sharon Olds.

Those who have traveled know the experience of extended time and sharpened perception. Muriel Rukeyser's account of Puck Fair ― the last existing pagan festival of the goat ― captures just that state of consciousness. Set in County Kerry, Ireland, The Orgy evokes this great American poet's journey of sensual and psychological transformation in the midst of a lush account of Irish culture and tradition. With a preface by Sharon Olds.

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About the Author

Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) is the author of fifteen collections of poems, children's books, plays, translations, and several prose works, including The Life of Poetry and an Irish memoir, The Orgy.

Reviews

Though receiving high praise from critics when initially published in 1965, this novel nonetheless soon went out of print. Set in Ireland's County Kerry during the pagan Puck Fair, the plot offers up large doses of human sexuality. This edition is based on the corrected text version that was published a few years after the original.
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"The Orgy is … a prayer about how to shape one's life. It is about blood lines and sympathy lines, about war and sexual war, about peace and the sexual dance…. It is a message in a bottle — a brilliant packet of messages in a far-traveled bottle." SHARON OLDS (from the preface to The Orgy)

Edition details

• Publisher: Paris Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0963818325
• ISBN 13: 9780963818324
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160