Praise for Octopus:
I don’t know if this book, Octopus, has eight arms but it has several: tender but completely unsentimental poems about children and marriage; angry poems and poems of deep gratitude; poems both comic and dark (often simultaneously); and maybe most of all a clear, original, passionate American voice.
—Thomas Lux, author of
Tom Hunley writes with wit, tenderness, and disarming honesty about the joys and travails of being a husband, father, teacher, and poet. Octopus sheds new light on old truths about the world, and reminds us that we re lucky to be here.
—Charles Harper Webb, author of Sidebend World
Octopus is number three in the Holland Series, published by Logan House.
Tom C. Hunley is the author of eight full-length poetry collections, eight chapbooks, and two textbooks. He also wrote and co-directed You’re Not Alone, a short film produced by Forerunner TV., Inc., and he and Dr. Alexandria Peary co-edited Creative Writing Pedagogies for the Twenty-First Century (Southern Illinois University Press, 2015). Tom holds degrees from University of Washington (BA), Eastern Washington University (MFA), and Florida State University (Ph.D.), where he held the Kingsbury fellowship. He is a professor of English and Creative Writing at Western Kentucky University, where he has taught since 2003. He has been married to Ralaina since 1996, and they raised four children together.
Octopus
Tom C. Hunley
Paperback: 80 pages
Logan House (September 16, 2008) $12
ISBN-13: 978-0976993537
