Is This My Final Form?

Amy Gerstler

ISBN 10: 0143138480 / ISBN 13: 9780143138488

Verlag: Penguin Random House LLC Apr 2025, 2025

Beschreibung

Neuware - 'A poet renowned for her 'wit and complexity' (Poetry Foundation) explores the endless evolution and malleability of life on earth in her most curious, inventive collection to date Aren't we all shape-shifters Is any animal, vegetable, or mineral-even a commonplace object-what it seems to be at any given moment Who isn't juggling constant transformations, conflicting roles, changing loyalties, loves, perceptions, and selves, all while being pummeled by shifting devotions, emotions, and obsessions Do even the dead continue to evolve in surprising ways Reveling in these questions, Gerstler's latest protean poetry collection includes loose sonnets, shapely praise of Mae West, the lament of an actor who can't shed his costume, dramatic monologues, whiffs of gender slippage, a love lyric to the bride of Frankenstein, a lullaby for adults, and a ten-minute play'.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780143138488

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Is This My Final Form?
• Verlag: Penguin Random House LLC Apr 2025
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0143138480
• ISBN-13: 9780143138488
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu

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A poet renowned for her “wit and complexity” (Poetry Foundation) explores the endless evolution and malleability of life on earth in her most curious, inventive collection to date

Aren’t we all shape-shifters? Is any animal, vegetable, or mineral—even a commonplace object—what it seems to be at any given moment? Who isn’t juggling constant transformations, conflicting roles, changing loyalties, loves, perceptions, and selves, all while being pummeled by shifting devotions, emotions, and obsessions? Do even the dead continue to evolve in surprising ways?

Reveling in these questions, Gerstler’s latest protean poetry collection includes loose sonnets, shapely praise of Mae West, the lament of an actor who can’t shed his costume, dramatic monologues, whiffs of gender slippage, a love lyric to the bride of Frankenstein, and a ten-minute play.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Amy Gerstler is a writer of poetry, art criticism, journalism and plays. She has published thirteen books of poems, a children's book and several collaborative artists books with visual artists. In 2019, she received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts CD Wright Grant. In 2018, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Scattered at Sea, a book of her poems published by Penguin in 2015 was longlisted for the National Book Award. Her book Bitter Angel won a National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work has appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies, including The New Yorker, Paris Review, The Atlantic, American Poetry Review, Poetry, several volumes of Best American Poetry and The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry.