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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Gerstler, Amy, author.     Subjects     American poetry.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Gerstler, Amy, author.       by title:      Scattered at sea / A...         MARC Display

Scattered at sea / Amy Gerstler ; [Illustrations by Gail Swanland]. by Gerstler, Amy, author. New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2015. Subjects American poetry. ISBN:  9780143126898 (paperback) : 014312689X (paperback) Series:  Penguin poets. Description:  77 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Contents:  Kissing. Sea foam palace ; Erotic psalm ; Debris trail ; Prehistoric porn film ; Kissing ; A sane life ; Fall on your knees ; In search of something to worship my eyes lighted on you -- Womanishness. Womanishness ; Thoughts of trees at twilight ; Bon courage ; Cursing of the party responsible for her suffering ; On wanting to be male ; Self-portrait as cave lady ; Merrythought ; Pale queen ; Childlessness -- Dust of heirs, dust of ancestors. Ancestor psalm ; Disclaimer ; On buying a walker ; Ancient Chinese philosophy ; The dead woman's telephone ; A short history of sublime moments on hold ; Early Greek philosophy ; Elijah, dead prophet, roams the earth ; Stoics -- What I did with your ashes. The suicide's wife ; Dear nation of my dead, ; Extracts from the consoler's handbook ; He sleeps everyafternoon ; On the idea the dead may live vicariously through us ; What I did with your ashes ; It was a splendid mind -- Only at certain sacred locations. Account of former lives ; A terribly sentimental fork ; Miraculous, ; Sassafras ; Penance ; Rumbles from a minor diety ; Hoffnung ; Kitchen annunciation ; Gratitude prayer. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 811.54 Ge Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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