| Scattered at Sea Contributor(s): Gerstler, Amy (Author) |
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ISBN: 014312689X ISBN-13: 9780143126898 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Women Authors - Literary Collections | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2015002411 |
| Series: Poets, Penguin |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 9" (0.30 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
