{"product_id":"medicine-isbn-9780140589245","title":"Medicine","description":"\u003cb\u003eAmy Gerstler\u003c\/b\u003e has won acclaim for complex yet accessible poetry that is by turns extravagant, subversive, surreal, and playful. In her new collection, \u003cb\u003eMedicine\u003c\/b\u003e, 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 collectivity suggests, but never quite defines, the floating authorial presence that haunts them. Gerstler's abiding interests--in love and mourning, in science and pseudo-science, in the idea of an afterlife--are strongly evident in these new poems, which are full of strong emotion, language play, surprising twists, and a wicked sense of black humor.MedicinePrayer for Jackson\u003cbr\u003e  To a Young Woman in a Coma\u003cbr\u003e  Nearby\u003cbr\u003e  The Bear-Boy of Lithuania\u003cbr\u003e  The Naturalist's Wife\u003cbr\u003e  Yom Kippur in Utah\u003cbr\u003e  The Story of Toasted Cheese\u003cbr\u003e  A Nautical Tale\u003cbr\u003e  Loss\u003cbr\u003e  An Attempt at Solace\u003cbr\u003e  Scorched Cinderella\u003cbr\u003e  A Non-Christian on Sunday\u003cbr\u003e  Lovesickness: a radio play for four disembodied voices\u003cbr\u003e  The Bride Goes Wild\u003cbr\u003e  Overheard at the Watering Hole\u003cbr\u003e  Prescription for Living\u003cbr\u003e  To My Husband, on the First Anniversary of His Mother's Death\u003cbr\u003e  A Sage in Retirement\u003cbr\u003e  Spring Tonic\u003cbr\u003e  Cut-Up\u003cbr\u003e  July 3rd\u003cbr\u003e  Address to a Broom\u003cbr\u003e  The Holy Storm\u003cbr\u003e  Things That Loosen the Tongue\u003cbr\u003e  Word Salad\u003cbr\u003e  Mysterious Tears\u003cbr\u003e  Retreat\u003cbr\u003e  Medicine\u003cbr\u003e  A Crushed House\u003cbr\u003e  Corpse and Mourner\u003cbr\u003e  Fugutive Color\u003cbr\u003e  A Severe Lack of Holiday Spirit\u003cbr\u003e  \"The landscape sends us our beloved\"\u003cbr\u003e  Tidings\u003cbr\u003e  Nightfall\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":46301346332901,"sku":"NP9780140589245","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140589245.jpg?v=1767732496","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/medicine-isbn-9780140589245","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}