Medicine

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.

Product details

• Authors: Amy Gerstler
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2000
• EAN: 9780140589245
• ISBN: 978-0-14-058924-5
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 226 mm x 7 mm
• Series: Penguin Poets; Penguin Poets
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama