Medicine (Penguin Poets)
by Gerstler, Amy
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- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140589244
- ISBN 13
- 9780140589245
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Russell Books Ltd (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- FORT691333
- Title
- Medicine (Penguin Poets)
- Author
- Gerstler, Amy
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140589244
- ISBN 13
- 9780140589245
- Publisher
- Penguin Group USA
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2000-06-01