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Medicine

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Author Amy Gerstler
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Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Books
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.
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
© 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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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.

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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© 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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