Scattered at Sea by Gerstler, Amy

Scattered at Sea (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143126898)

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Format: Paperback
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Scattered at Sea by Gerstler, Amy

Scattered at Sea

$20.00
Scattered at Sea by Gerstler, Amy

Scattered at Sea

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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A dazzling new collection from an award-winning poet--longlisted for the 2015 National Book Award for Poetry

Amy Gerstler has won acclaim for sly, sophisticated, and subversive poems that find meaning in unexpected places. The title of her new collection, Scattered at Sea, evokes notions of dispersion, diaspora, sowing one's wild oats, having one's mind expanded or blown, losing one's wits, and mortality. Making use of dramatic monologue, elegy, humor, and collage, these poems explore hedonism, gender, ancestry, reincarnation, bereavement, and the nature of prayer. Groping for an inclusive, imaginative, postmodern spirituality, they draw from an array of sources, including the philosophy of the ancient Stoics, diagnostic tests for Alzheimer's disease, 1950s recipes, the Babylonian Talmud, and Walter Benjamin's writing on his drug experiences.

Author: Amy Gerstler
ISBN-10: 014312689X
ISBN-13: 9780143126898
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 05/26/2015
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.40d
Award: National Book Awards - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/01/2015 pg. 77
Publishers Weekly 06/15/2015
By Amy Gerstler
By Amy Gerstler
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AMY GERSTLER is a writer of poetry, nonfiction, and journalism who lives in Los Angeles. Her ten previous poetry collections include Bitter Angel, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Dearest Creature, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

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