Medicine

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 06/01/2000
ISBN: 9780140589245
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.97h x 5.94w x 0.29d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 06/05/2000 pg. 90
Booklist 06/01/2000 pg. 1839
Library Journal 09/01/2000 pg. 214
Publishers Weekly 06/10/2000