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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This is one of Gerstler's strongest collections, but the amount of levity here sometimes overpowers and carries off the macabre weight. Gerstler's best collections (Ghost Girl comes to mind) balance these two elements with deft and skill. Here though, the humor and quirkiness overshadows the macabre elements. That said, this book is full of powerful and strange imagery and a couple of the poems here are among her best. no reviews | add a review
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"A dazzling new collection from an award-winning poet 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"-- No library descriptions found. |
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Refill with clean, soapy water" in "Penance" (68-69), but there's not a single poem I think I'll remember a week from now. I'm not sure I like Gerstler's voice.
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