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INDEX OF WOMEN
From a "maestro of invention" (The New York Times) who is at once supremely witty, ferociously smart, and emotionally raw comes a new collection of poems about womanhood.
Amy Gerstler has won acclaim for sly, sophisticated, and subversive poems that find meaning in unexpected places. Women's voices, from childhood to old age, dominated this new collection of rants, dramatic monologues, confessions and laments. A young girl muses on virginity. An aging opera singer rages against the fact that she must quit drinking. A woman in a supermarket addresses a head of lettuce. The tooth fairy finally speaks out.
Both comic and prayer-like, these poems wrestle with mortality, animality, love, gender, and what it is to be human.
Amy Gerstler is a writer of poetry, nonfiction, and journalism who lives in Los Angeles. She is the author of ten previous poetry collections, including Bitter Angel, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Crown of Weeds, which won a California Book Award. Her most recent collection, Scattered at Sea (2015), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, and several volumes of Best American Poetry. She teaches in the graduate fine arts department at Art Center, College of Design in Pasadena, California, and is a member of the core faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars MFA Program at Bennington College in Vermont.
Both comic and prayer-like, these poems wrestle with mortality, animality, love, gender, and what it is to be human.
Amy Gerstler is a writer of poetry, nonfiction, and journalism who lives in Los Angeles. She is the author of ten previous poetry collections, including Bitter Angel, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Crown of Weeds, which won a California Book Award. Her most recent collection, Scattered at Sea (2015), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, and several volumes of Best American Poetry. She teaches in the graduate fine arts department at Art Center, College of Design in Pasadena, California, and is a member of the core faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars MFA Program at Bennington College in Vermont.
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Published 2021-04-06 by Penguin Poets |