Dearest creature
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Word Count
21,000 words, Guess
Page Count
84 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivedearestcreature0000gers
- ISBN-139780143116356
- ISBN-100143116355
- Goodreads6469260
- LibraryThing9047931
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- Library of Congress Control Number2009019882
- OCLC Control Number318411455
- Better World Books9780143116356
- Open LibraryOL23230281M
Classifications
- DDC811/.54
- LCCPS3557.E735 D43 2009
- LCCPS3557.E735D43 2009
Description
A surreal new collection from an acclaimed poetHallucinogenic 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.
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"--Page 4 of cover.
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Series Statement
- Penguin poets
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