Dearest Creature
$44.43
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
29 September 2009
Summary
A surreal new collection from an acclaimed poetHallucinogenic plants chant in chorus. A thoughtful dog grants an interview. A caterpillar offers life advice. Amy Gerstler’s newest collection of poetry, Dearest Creature, marries fact and fiction in a menagerie of dramatic monologues, twisted love poems, and epistolary pleadings. Drawing on sources as disparate as Lewis Carroll and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, as well as abnormal psychology, etiquette, and archaeology texts, these darkly imaginative poems probe what it means to be a sentient, temporary, flesh-and-blood beast, to be hopelessly, vividly creaturely.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143116356 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143116355 |
| Author: | Amy Gerstler |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 29 September 2009 |
| Weight: | 127g |
| Dimensions: | 5mm x 153mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Penguin Poets |
| Audience Age: | 18-17 |
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Amy Gerstler
Amy Gerstler is a writer of fiction, poetry, and journalism whose work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including the Paris Review and Best American Poetry. Her 1990 book Bitter Angel won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Previous titles from Penguin are Crown of Weeds, 1997, and Nerve Storm, 1993.
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