Dearest Creature
by:
Amy Gerstler (author)
A surreal new collection from an acclaimed poetHallucinogenic 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...
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A surreal new collection from an acclaimed poetHallucinogenic 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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143116356 (0143116355)
Publish date: September 29th 2009
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 96
Edition language: English
Usually I get very iffy about poetry books when I see that they've won awards or are selected as "Notable Books" because I've found that, in those cases, I didn't really enjoy the book and struggled through the poems. I breezed through this one, gobbled it up, in fact, and my final rating for this...
Gerstler's twisted love poems are told with wit and grimey spit. I am hooked on Gerstler's work. Already got 2 more of her books on hold at library.A caterpillars advice, Mrs Monster pens her memoirs and hallucinogenic plants. Great read.-For My Niece Age 6-Sonnet- Luncheon with the Etruscans- Moon...
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