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Highlights
- Sly and sophisticated, direct, playful, and profound, Amy Gerstler's new collection highlights her distinctive poetic style.
- Great Stone Face Book Award 2005 4th Winner
- About the Author: 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.
- 80 Pages
- Poetry, American
- Series Name: Penguin Poets
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Book Synopsis
Sly and sophisticated, direct, playful, and profound, Amy Gerstler's new collection highlights her distinctive poetic style. In thirty-seven poems, using a variety of dramatic voices and visual techniques, she finds meaning in unexpected places, from a tour of a doll hospital to an ad for a CD of Beethoven symphonies to an earthy exploration of toast. Gerstler's abiding interests--in love and mourning, in science and pseudoscience, in the idea of an afterlife, in seances and magic--are all represented here. Entertaining and erudite, complex yet accessible, these poems will enhance Gerstler's reputation as an important contemporary poet.Review Quotes
?[Gerstler] has created a singular body of work, at once witty, daring, and full of pathos.... She is the wisecracker in the face of the inexplicable.? ("Los Angeles Times")
a[Gerstler] has created a singular body of work, at once witty, daring, and full of pathos.... She is the wisecracker in the face of the inexplicable.a ("Los Angeles Times")
[Gerstler] has created a singular body of work, at once witty, daring, and full of pathos.... She is the wisecracker in the face of the inexplicable. ("Los Angeles Times")
"[Gerstler] has created a singular body of work, at once witty, daring, and full of pathos.... She is the wisecracker in the face of the inexplicable." ("Los Angeles Times")
"[Gerstler] has created a singular body of work, at once witty, daring, and full of pathos. . . . She is the wisecracker in the face of the inexplicable."
About the Author
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.Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.06 Inches (W) x .24 Inches (D)
Weight: .26 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 80
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: American
Series Title: Penguin Poets
Publisher: Penguin Books
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Amy Gerstler
Language: English
Street Date: April 6, 2004
TCIN: 1001840515
UPC: 9780142000649
Item Number (DPCI): 247-02-1174
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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