Dearest Creature
Penguin Publishing Group, September 2009. Second Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Item #642443
ISBN: 0143116355
Second Printing. A Near Fine copy with minimal shelfwear, sharp corners, and an uncreased spine. 84 pp. // From the publisher: 'A surreal new collection from an acclaimed poet // Hallucinogenic plants chant in chorus. A thoughtful dog grants an interview. A caterpillar offers life advice. Amy Gerstler's newest collection of poetry, Dearest Creature, marries fact and fiction in a menagerie of dramatic monologues, twisted love poems, and epistolary pleadings. Drawing on sources as disparate as Lewis Carroll and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, as well as abnormal psychology, etiquette, and archaeology texts, these darkly imaginative poems probe what it means to be a sentient, temporary, flesh-and-blood beast, to be hopelessly, vividly creaturely.'.
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