Medicine
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Series: Penguin Poets
Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry
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ISBN10: 0140589244
ISBN13: 9780140589245
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Jun 1 2000
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.94 Depth: 8.97
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780140589245
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Jun 1 2000
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.94 Depth: 8.97
Language: English
Amy Gerstler has won acclaim for complex yet accessible poetry that is by turns extravagant, subversive, surreal, and playful. In her new collection, Medicine, she deploys a variety of dramatic voices, spoken by such disparate characters as Cinderella's wicked sisters, the wife of a nineteenth-century naturalist, a homicide detective, and a woman who is happily married to a bear. Their elusive collectivity suggests, but never quite defines, the floating authorial presence that haunts them. Gerstler's abiding interests--in love and mourning, in science and pseudo-science, in the idea of an afterlife--are strongly evident in these new poems, which are full of strong emotion, language play, surprising twists, and a wicked sense of black humor.
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