Amy Gerstler, Author . Penguin $16 (80p) ISBN 978-0-14-200064-9
Amid the grab bag of discursive forms that make up Gerstler's eighth collection, single anecdotes animate several poems, as when a speaker misreads an offer for "Beethoven's Complete Symphonies" as "Beethoven's Complete...
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Amy Gerstler, Author Penguin Books $15.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-14-058703-6
In her first collection since Bitter Angel , which won the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award, Gerstler continues her intense, and often savage, pursuit of redemption through suffering. At times pain is caused by illness (scarlet fever,...
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Amy Gerstler, Author Penguin Books $15.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-14-058924-5
""Dear Lord, fire-eating custodian of my soul,/ author of hemaphrodites, radishes,/ and Arizona's rosy sandstone,/ please protect this wet-cheeked baby/ from disabling griefs, "" Gerstler's eighth book of poems begins with a ""Prayer for Jackson""...
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Amy Gerstler, Author North Point Press $12.95 (79p) ISBN 978-0-86547-408-6
Like the clairvoyant speaker in one of the many dramatic monologues in this imaginative collection, Gerstler (True Bride ) seems to have been ``born without immunity / to this din in the air: / the sad humming of the long lost.'' Her characters...
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Amy Gerstler. Penguin, $20 (96p) ISBN 978-0-14-312689-8
Gerstler (Dearest Creature), winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for Bitter Angel, once again brilliantly amplifies the natural world in this blisteringly humorous 11th collection. Never shy, the poems zip between black comedy and...
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Amy Gerstler. Penguin, $20 (112p) ISBN 978-0-14-313621-7
Gerstler (Scattered at Sea) brings her customary wit, playfulness, and emotional range to poems that expose the contradictions in ancient and contemporary concepts of femininity. These poems—some dramatic monologues, others more quiet lyrics—vividly
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