{"product_id":"dearest-creature-isbn-9780143116356","title":"Dearest Creature","description":"\u003cb\u003eA surreal new collection from an acclaimed poet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHallucinogenic 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 \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as abnormal psychology, etiquette, and archaeology texts, these darkly imaginative poems probe what it means to be a sentient, temporary, flesh-and-blood beast, to be hopelessly, vividly creaturely.\u003cb\u003eAmy Gerstler\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer of fiction, poetry, and journalism whose work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including the \u003cb\u003eParis Review\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eBest American Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e. Her 1990 book \u003cb\u003eBitter Angel\u003c\/b\u003e won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Previous titles from Penguin are \u003cb\u003eCrown of Weeds\u003c\/b\u003e, 1997, and \u003cb\u003eNerve Storm\u003c\/b\u003e, 1993.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299762262245,"sku":"NP9780143116356","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143116356.jpg?v=1767724871","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/dearest-creature-isbn-9780143116356","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}