Scattered At Sea
  • Published: 26 May 2015
  • ISBN: 9780698183308
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 96
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Scattered At Sea

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26 May 2015
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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.
  • Published: 26 May 2015
  • ISBN: 9780698183308
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 96
Categories:

Also by Amy Gerstler

Is This My Final Form?
Index of Women
Dearest Creature
Ghost Girl
Medicine
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Praise for Scattered At Sea

Praise for Dearest Creature (2009)

"Delightful. . .[Gerstler is] a maestra of invention. . .she is skilled in every kind of comedy, from slapstick to whimsy. Yet there's a deep seriousness to every one of these poems. . .as grave as they are bittersweet, these poems pay up again and again" David Kirby, The New York Times Book Review

Praise for Ghost Girl (2004)

"Eerie, oracular. . .these playful, showy monologues offer a musical thrill. . .[Gerstler] argues beautifully for a bracingly vaudevillian notion of the universe." The New York Times Book Review

Praise for Medicine (2000)

"Gerstler is a visionary poet. . .in these new poems, by turns playful and haunting, she subverts and charms, walking a tightrope of language over life's most challenging defiles." The San Francisco Chronicle

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