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  • Is This My Final Form?

    by Amy Gerstler ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    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 dateAren’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, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Scattered at Sea

    by Amy Gerstler ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    A dazzling new collection from an award-winning poet--longlisted for the 2015 National Book Award for PoetryAmy 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 ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Ghost Girl

    by Amy Gerstler ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    Sly and sophisticated, direct, playful, and profound, Amy Gerstler’s new collection highlights her distinctive poetic style. In thirty-seven poems, using a variety of dramatic voices and visual techniques, she finds meaning in unexpected places, from a tour of a doll hospital to an ad for a CD of Beethoven symphonies to an earthy exploration of toast. Gerstler’s abiding interests—in love and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Dearest Creature

    by Amy Gerstler ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    A surreal new collection from an acclaimed poetHallucinogenic 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 ... Read more

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  • Index of Women

    by Amy Gerstler ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    From a "maestra of invention" (The New York Times) who is at once supremely witty, ferociously smart, and emotionally raw, a new collection of poems about womanhoodAmy Gerstler has won acclaim for sly, sophisticated, and subversive poems that find meaning in unexpected places. Women's voices, from childhood to old age, dominate this new collection of rants, dramatic monologues, confessions and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Medicine

    by Amy Gerstler ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    Amy Gerstler has won acclaim for complex yet accessible poetry that is by turns extravagant, subversive, surreal, and playful. In her new collection, Medicine, she deploys a variety of dramatic voices, spoken by such disparate characters as Cinderella's wicked sisters, the wife of a nineteenth-century naturalist, a homicide detective, and a woman who is happily married to a bear. Their elusive ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Nerve Storm

    by Amy Gerstler ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    "Your thoughts become fluid, volatile; their aroma fills the room. This is a nerve storm."In her first collection since Bitter Angel, winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award, Amy Gerstlerexplores themes of suffering and redemption through a heady blend of folklore, popular culture, and the natural world in Nerve Storm. The poet Eileen Myles has said that "the supernatural, the sexy ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Is This My Final Form?

    by Amy Gerstler ...
    Narrated by Amy Gerstler ...
    Series series Penguin Poets

    Unabridged

    1 hour 31 min

    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 dateAren’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, ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Ploughshares Winter 2025-2026

    The Winter 2025-26 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Winter 2025-26 issue features ... Read more

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  • Ploughshares Winter 2017-2018

    The Winter 2017-18 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles; the Winter issue is staff-edited.This staff-edited issue of Ploughshares features new work by Alice Hoffman, Paige Lewis, Carl Dennis, Amy Gerstler, and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Best American Poetry 2010

    Series Editor David Lehman

    Edited by Amy Gerstler, David Lehman ...
    **AMY GERSTLER’S COMMITMENT TO INNOVATIVE POETRY that conveys meaning, feeling, wit, and humor informs the cross section of poems in the 2010 edition of *The Best American Poetry.***The works collected here represent the wealth, the breadth, and the tremendous energy of poetry in the United States today. Featuring poems from some of our country’s top bards, including John Ashbery, Anne Carson, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Best of the Best American Poetry

    25th Anniversary Edition

    Edited by David Lehman ...
    Robert Pinsky, distinguished poet and man of letters, selects the top 100 poems from twenty-five years of The Best American PoetryThis special edition celebrates twenty-five years of the Best American Poetry series, which has become an institution. From its inception in 1988, it has been hotly debated, keenly monitored, ardently advocated (or denounced), and obsessively scrutinized. Each volume ... Read more

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