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Dearest Creature
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Dearest Creature
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Amy Gerstler
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| Series | Penguin Poets |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:96 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 153 |
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| Category/Genre | Poetry
Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780143116356
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| Classifications | Dewey:811.54 |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Penguin Putnam Inc
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| Imprint |
Penguin USA
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| Publication Date |
29 September 2009 |
| Publication Country |
United States
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Description
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.
Author Biography
Amy Gerstler is a writer of fiction, poetry, and journalism whose work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including the Paris Review and Best American Poetry. Her 1990 book Bitter Angel won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Previous titles from Penguin are Crown of Weeds, 1997, and Nerve Storm, 1993.
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