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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 96 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 229x150x8 mm, weight: 136 g
  • Serija: Penguin Poets
  • Išleidimo metai: 26-May-2015
  • Leidėjas: Penguin USA
  • ISBN-10: 014312689X
  • ISBN-13: 9780143126898
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 96 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 229x150x8 mm, weight: 136 g
  • Serija: Penguin Poets
  • Išleidimo metai: 26-May-2015
  • Leidėjas: Penguin USA
  • ISBN-10: 014312689X
  • ISBN-13: 9780143126898
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"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 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"--

A new collection of poems explores hedonism, gender, ancestry, reincarnation, and the nature of prayer, finding inspiration from an array of sources, including the philosophy of the ancient Stoics, diagnostic tests for Alzheimer's disease, 1950s recipes,and Walter Benjamin's writing on his drug experiences.

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 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.


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 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.

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Praise for Scattered at Sea:

This wry book is like a wave that knocks you over and changes how you view the world. . .[ It] mixes salty humor, invigorating rhythms and sharp-edged wisdom. The Washington Post

                                                                             

Scattered at Sea takes deep, often beautiful dips into matters of femininity, sexuality, and mortality, while staying fleet, feisty, and musical enough to feel like short adventures. .  .Gerstlers real strength is in the way she collides the sensual with the spiritual. . .the world she creates is beautifully diffuse, as freeform as her poems are. The Boston Globe

Scattered at Sea got under my skin in aways that I did not expect . . . [ these poems] have a heart of sense-making. And that impulse toward gathering meaning from the shards of chaos is sorely needed in this particualr poetic and political moment . . . [ Gerstler] reminds us of the struggle to be human in a capricious world." Wendy Willis, Los Angeles Review of Books                                                                               Gerstler once again brilliantly amplifies the natural world in this blisteringly humorous eleventh collection. . .her dexterous poems work as satire as well as truthful reflections of humanness, often beautifully crushing in their honesty. . .what is most compelling is Gerstlers dynamic consideration of spirituality, afterworlds, and reincarnations. . .[ A] delightful, surreal, and well-rounded book. Publishers Weekly

Daugiau informacijos

Short-listed for National Book Awards (Poetry) 2015.
I Kissing
Sea Foam Palace
3(2)
Erotic Psalm
5(1)
Debris Trail
6(1)
Prehistoric Porn Film
7(1)
Kissing
8(1)
A Sane Life
9(2)
Fall on Your Knees
11(1)
In Search of Something to Worship, My Eyes Lighted on You
12(3)
II Womanishness
Womanishness
15(1)
Thoughts of Trees at Twilight
16(1)
Bon Courage
17(2)
Cursing of the Party Responsible for Her Suffering
19(1)
On Wanting to Be Male
20(1)
Self-Portrait as Cave Lady
21(1)
Merrythought
22(1)
Pale Queen
23(1)
Childlessness
24(3)
III Dust Of Heirs, Dust Of Ancestors
Ancestor Psalm
27(1)
Diclaimer
28(3)
On Buying a Walker
31(2)
Ancient Chinese Philosophy
33(1)
The Dead Woman's Telephone
34(2)
A Short History of Sublime Moments on Hold
36(1)
Early Greek Philosophy
37(1)
Elijah, dead prophet, roams the earth
38(2)
Stoics
40(3)
IV What I Did With Your Ashes
The suicide's wife
43(3)
Dear Nation of My Dead
46(1)
Extracts from the Consoler's Handbook
47(2)
He sleeps every afternoon
49(2)
On the Idea the Dead May Live Vicariously Through Us
51(2)
What I Did with Your Ashes
53(1)
It was a splendid mind
54(9)
V Only At Certain Sacred Locations
Account of Former Lives
63(1)
A Terribly Sentimental Fork
64(2)
Miraculous
66(1)
Sassafras
67(1)
Penance
68(2)
Rumbles from a Minor Deity
70(1)
Hoffnung
71(2)
Kitchen Annunciation
73(1)
Gratitude Prayer
74(3)
Notes 77
AMY GERSTLER is a writer of poetry, nonfiction, and journalism who lives in Los Angeles. Her ten previous poetry collections include Bitter Angel, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Dearest Creature, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.