Dearest Creature
Author: Gerstler, Amy
ISBN: 9780143116356
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 29 Sep 2009
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback / softback
b>A surreal new collection from an acclaimed poet/b>br>br>Hallucinogenic 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 i>Frankenstein/i>, 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.
ISBN: 9780143116356
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 29 Sep 2009
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback / softback
b>A surreal new collection from an acclaimed poet/b>br>br>Hallucinogenic 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 i>Frankenstein/i>, 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.
