Dearest Creature Paperback - 2009
by Amy Gerstler
A surreal new collection from an acclaimed poet
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, andepistolary pleadings. Drawing on sources as disparate as Lewis Carroll and Mary Shelley'sFrankenstein, as well as abnormal psychology, etiquette, and archaeology texts, these darklyimaginative poems probe what it means to be a sentient, temporary, flesh-and-blood beast,to be hopelessly, vividly creaturely.
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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 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.
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- Title Dearest Creature
- Author Amy Gerstler
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Original
- Pages 96
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books
- Date 2009-09-01
- Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780143116356 / 0143116355
- Weight 0.32 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 5.76 x 0.31 in (23.11 x 14.63 x 0.79 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Women's Interest
- Library of Congress subjects Poetry, American
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009019882
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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Citations
- Library Journal, 10/01/2009, Page 80
- New York Times Book Review, 11/08/2009, Page 6
- NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 12/06/2009, Page 20
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