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    Nerve Storm

    Part of Penguin Poets

    Author Amy Gerstler
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    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Books
    On sale Nov 01, 1993 | 112 Pages | 9780140587036
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    "Your thoughts become fluid, volatile; their aroma fills the room. This is a nerve storm."

    In her first collection since Bitter Angel, winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award, Amy Gerstler explores themes of suffering and redemption through a heady blend of folklore, popular culture, and the natural world in Nerve Storm. The poet Eileen Myles has said that "the supernatural, the sexy mundane, the out-of-sight are simply [Gerstler's] materials, employed as they might be in a piece of religious art." A crackling wit and whimsical instinct guide this collection as Gerstler traipses through humanity's triumphs and blunders, effortlessly revealing the surreal and surprising possibilities inherent in everyday life.
    Nerve StormAcknowledgments

    Petition
    Shroud Song
    Scarlet Fever
    French Leave
    Overheard on the Soul Train
    Ether
    Rest Cure
    Mr. Right
    My Place in His Heart
    That Calm Sunday That Rolls
    On and On
    Freud's Apology
    A Hypochondriac's Account of Herself
    My Muse
    Dust
    Extended Vacation
    Around the Block in Eighty Days
    Suffering in the Old Testament
    The Mermaid's Purse
    Lost in the Forest
    A Sinking Feeling
    On Wanting to Grow Horns
    Dead Hunters
    Diary of a Lonely Antcatcher
    Grass
    Losing Heart
    Dear Rage Management Supervisor,
    Fugue
    Duet
    Queen for a Day
    The Virility Room
    Daughter of Eve
    The Stretcher-bearers
    Doomsday
    Nerve Storm
    The One for Me
    Sad Women's Harvest Song
    Duration
    Modern Madonnas
    Consolation
    When empty of light,
    An Invalid
    Autobiography

    About the Author

    © Amy Gerstler
    Amy Gerstler is a writer of poetry, art criticism, journalism and plays. She has published thirteen books of poems, a children's book and several collaborative artists books with visual artists. In 2019, she received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts CD Wright Grant. In 2018, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Scattered at Sea, a book of her poems published by Penguin in 2015 was longlisted for the National Book Award. Her book Bitter Angel won a National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work has appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies, including The New Yorker, Paris Review, The Atlantic, American Poetry Review, Poetry, several volumes of Best American Poetry and The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry. View titles by Amy Gerstler

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    "Your thoughts become fluid, volatile; their aroma fills the room. This is a nerve storm."

    In her first collection since Bitter Angel, winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award, Amy Gerstler explores themes of suffering and redemption through a heady blend of folklore, popular culture, and the natural world in Nerve Storm. The poet Eileen Myles has said that "the supernatural, the sexy mundane, the out-of-sight are simply [Gerstler's] materials, employed as they might be in a piece of religious art." A crackling wit and whimsical instinct guide this collection as Gerstler traipses through humanity's triumphs and blunders, effortlessly revealing the surreal and surprising possibilities inherent in everyday life.

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    Nerve StormAcknowledgments

    Petition
    Shroud Song
    Scarlet Fever
    French Leave
    Overheard on the Soul Train
    Ether
    Rest Cure
    Mr. Right
    My Place in His Heart
    That Calm Sunday That Rolls
    On and On
    Freud's Apology
    A Hypochondriac's Account of Herself
    My Muse
    Dust
    Extended Vacation
    Around the Block in Eighty Days
    Suffering in the Old Testament
    The Mermaid's Purse
    Lost in the Forest
    A Sinking Feeling
    On Wanting to Grow Horns
    Dead Hunters
    Diary of a Lonely Antcatcher
    Grass
    Losing Heart
    Dear Rage Management Supervisor,
    Fugue
    Duet
    Queen for a Day
    The Virility Room
    Daughter of Eve
    The Stretcher-bearers
    Doomsday
    Nerve Storm
    The One for Me
    Sad Women's Harvest Song
    Duration
    Modern Madonnas
    Consolation
    When empty of light,
    An Invalid
    Autobiography

    About the Author

    Author

    © Amy Gerstler
    Amy Gerstler is a writer of poetry, art criticism, journalism and plays. She has published thirteen books of poems, a children's book and several collaborative artists books with visual artists. In 2019, she received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts CD Wright Grant. In 2018, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Scattered at Sea, a book of her poems published by Penguin in 2015 was longlisted for the National Book Award. Her book Bitter Angel won a National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work has appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies, including The New Yorker, Paris Review, The Atlantic, American Poetry Review, Poetry, several volumes of Best American Poetry and The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry. View titles by Amy Gerstler

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