Dearest Creature

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: Amy Gerstler
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 09/01/2009
Series: Penguin Poets
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.76w x 0.31d
ISBN: 9780143116356


Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist