The Orgy

by Muriel Rukeyser

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: B0000CMXKF
• Release Date: January 1966
• Publisher: Pocket Books, Inc.
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.

Customer Reviews

More Entertaining than an Orgy

This intensely interesting book, part fiction, part memoir, and part stream-of-consciousness writing, has such a unique premise (a trip to Ireland to research a wild festival first hand) that it would have been a great book even without a good writing style. Nevertheless, Rukeyser's startlingly vivid poetic sentences are a key reason to read this book as well. The narrator/author's observations are so detailed that the reader feels as though he or she is in Ireland with her. By some miracle, the details never slow the book down; I found myself regretting how quickly I'd gobbled down this marvelous book (two days). I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys travel memoirs, engaging novels, or prose poems.