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{{infobox book
|name=The Octopus Frontier
|author=Richard Brautigan
|image=The_Octopus_Frontier_1960_cover.jpg
|caption=Cover of 1960 edition
|pub_date=1960
|publisher=Carp Press
|location=San Francisco
|genre=Poetry
|language=English
|pages=20
|isbn=
|oclc=
|preceded_by=Lay the Marble Tea
|followed_by=All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
}}The Octopus Frontier is a 1960 poetry collection by American writer Richard Brautigan. It is Brautigan's fourth poetry publication and his second collection of poetry, and includes 22 poems. ContentsThe Octopus Frontier includes 22 poems: {{columns-list|colwidth=30em|- "The Sawmill"
- "1942"
- "The Wheel"
- "The Pumpkin Tide"
- "The Sidney Greenstreet Blues"
- "The Quail"
- "The Symbol"
- "A Postcard from Chinatown"
- "Sit Comma and Creely Comma"
- "The Rape of Ophelia"
- "The Last Music Is Not Heard"
- "The Octopus Frontier"
- "The Potato House of Julius Caesar"
- "The Fever Monument"
- "The Winos on Potrero Hill"
- "Mike"
- "Horse Race"
- "The Old Folk's Home"
- "The Postman"
- "Surprise"
- "The Nature Poem"
- "Private Eye Lettuce"
}}All but 5 of the poems were republished in the 1968 collection, The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster.[1] ReceptionIn the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Caroline Bokinsky said the collection "continues Brautigan's creation of order and meaning from objects in the literal world by using them to construct a fantasy world within his own imagination."[2] Citing several examples, she describes the ways in which Brautigan makes connections and associations to lead readers through his imagination, acting "as a painter, in a meticulous step-by-step process, putting each object in a specific place to create a painting."[2] Fellow poet Richard McClure said the poems "are filled with large simple images of vegetables and pumpkins floating on the tide, a poem about Ophelia, and poems about childhood." According to McClure, it was at this point in Brautigan's writing that there emerged "a recognizable Brautigan style [...] but there is no indication that this work is greatly above the level of much North Beach poetry." CoverThe Octopus Frontier is the first Brautigan work to feature a photograph on the cover.[ The image, by San Francisco-based photographer Gui de Angelo, shows a person's feet standing on a six-foot octopus tentacle Brautigan bought for the purpose from a Chinatown fishmonger and carried to the roof of a building in North Beach. It has been described as being "striking and just misses being sinister".][[7]]References1. ^1 2 {{cite book|title=Dictionary of Literary Biography|volume=5: American Poets Since World War II|last=Bokinsky|first=Carolina J.|editor=Greiner, Donald J.|publisher=Gale Research Company|date=1980|pages=96-99|via=Brautigan.net}}
2. ^1 {{cite web|title=The Octopus Frontier|url=http://www.brautigan.net/octopus.html|publisher=BRAUTIGAN.net|last=Barber|first=John F.|accessdate=August 31, 2017}}
3. ^1 {{cite book|last1=Hjortsberg|first1=William|title=Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan|date=2013|publisher=Counterpoint|isbn=9781619021051|page=165|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lanGAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA165&dq=brautigan%20octopus%20frontier&pg=PA165#v=onepage&q=brautigan%20octopus%20frontier&f=false}}
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}}External links- {{cite web|title=The Octopus Frontier|url=http://www.brautigan.net/octopus.html|publisher=BRAUTIGAN.net|last=Barber|first=John F.}} includes listing of contents, text of poems, and commentary
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