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Medicine

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Author Amy Gerstler
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On sale Jun 01, 2000 | 96 Pages | 9780140589245
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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.
© Amy Gerstler
Amy Gerstler is a writer of poetry, nonfiction, and journalism who lives in Los Angeles. She is the author of ten previous poetry collections, including Bitter Angel, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Crown of Weeds, which won a California Book Award. Her most recent collection, Scattered at Sea, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The American Poetry Review, and several volumes of Best American Poetry. She teaches in the graduate fine arts department at Art Center, College of Design, in Pasadena, California, and is a member of the core faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars MFA program at Bennington College in Vermont. View titles by Amy Gerstler
MedicinePrayer for Jackson
To a Young Woman in a Coma
Nearby
The Bear-Boy of Lithuania
The Naturalist's Wife
Yom Kippur in Utah
The Story of Toasted Cheese
A Nautical Tale
Loss
An Attempt at Solace
Scorched Cinderella
A Non-Christian on Sunday
Lovesickness: a radio play for four disembodied voices
The Bride Goes Wild
Overheard at the Watering Hole
Prescription for Living
To My Husband, on the First Anniversary of His Mother's Death
A Sage in Retirement
Spring Tonic
Cut-Up
July 3rd
Address to a Broom
The Holy Storm
Things That Loosen the Tongue
Word Salad
Mysterious Tears
Retreat
Medicine
A Crushed House
Corpse and Mourner
Fugutive Color
A Severe Lack of Holiday Spirit
"The landscape sends us our beloved"
Tidings
Nightfall

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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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© Amy Gerstler
Amy Gerstler is a writer of poetry, nonfiction, and journalism who lives in Los Angeles. She is the author of ten previous poetry collections, including Bitter Angel, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Crown of Weeds, which won a California Book Award. Her most recent collection, Scattered at Sea, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The American Poetry Review, and several volumes of Best American Poetry. She teaches in the graduate fine arts department at Art Center, College of Design, in Pasadena, California, and is a member of the core faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars MFA program at Bennington College in Vermont. View titles by Amy Gerstler

Table of Contents

MedicinePrayer for Jackson
To a Young Woman in a Coma
Nearby
The Bear-Boy of Lithuania
The Naturalist's Wife
Yom Kippur in Utah
The Story of Toasted Cheese
A Nautical Tale
Loss
An Attempt at Solace
Scorched Cinderella
A Non-Christian on Sunday
Lovesickness: a radio play for four disembodied voices
The Bride Goes Wild
Overheard at the Watering Hole
Prescription for Living
To My Husband, on the First Anniversary of His Mother's Death
A Sage in Retirement
Spring Tonic
Cut-Up
July 3rd
Address to a Broom
The Holy Storm
Things That Loosen the Tongue
Word Salad
Mysterious Tears
Retreat
Medicine
A Crushed House
Corpse and Mourner
Fugutive Color
A Severe Lack of Holiday Spirit
"The landscape sends us our beloved"
Tidings
Nightfall

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