Scattered at Sea - Poets, Penguin Author:Amy Gerstler 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 mort... more »ality. 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.« less
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