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Medicine / Amy Gerstler.
Van Pelt Library PS3557.E735 M44 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gerstler, Amy.
- Series:
- Penguin poets
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- x, 81 pages : portrait ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin, 2000.
- Summary:
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 0140589244
- OCLC:
- 42753014
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