The Orgy

By Muriel Rukeyser

Book Overview

Those who have traveled know the experience of extended time and sharpened perception. Muriel Rukeyser's account of Ireland's 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0963818325
• ISBN13: 9780963818324
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Paris Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up

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.