Dearest Creature

by Amy Gerstler

Book Overview

A surreal new collection from an acclaimed poet Hallucinogenic plants chant in chorus. A thoughtful dog grants an interview. A caterpillar offers life advice. Amy Gerstler's newest collection of poetry, Dearest Creature, marries fact and fiction in a menagerie of dramatic monologues, twisted love poems, and epistolary pleadings. Drawing on sources as disparate as Lewis Carroll and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , as well as abnormal psychology, etiquette,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143116355
• ISBN13: 9780143116356
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher