Bibliograph

Scattered at sea, Amy Gerstler

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Scattered at sea, Amy Gerstler

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Scattered at sea

Responsibility statement

Amy Gerstler

Series statement

Penguin poets

Summary

"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"--Provided by publisher

Target audience

adult

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