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Dearest Creature
Dearest Creature | Amy Gerstler
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A surreal new collection from an acclaimed poetHallucinogenic plants chant in chorus. A thoughtful dog grants an interview. A caterpillar offers life advice. Amy Gerstlers 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 Shelleys Frankenstein, 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.
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#Poetrymatters
#change
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One of the first lessons I ever learned about change was that caterpillars become butterflies.

vivastory I love Gerstler 5y
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Dearest Creature | Amy Gerstler
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#poetrychallenge2018

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kgriffith
kgriffith
Dearest Creature | Amy Gerstler
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“Alternate crumpling and climbing.” #poetrychallenge2018

Swe_Eva Brilliant! 💜 6y
SqueakyChu What is crumpling?! 6y
kgriffith @SqueakyChu I don‘t know the exact parallel for a caterpillar — perhaps they become exhausted and need to take a break from working their way out of their chrysalis? but for me, it‘s giving myself permission to break and mend in between times of strength. This piece describes it well: https://www.elephantjournal.com/2011/06/why-being-broken-in-a-pile-on-your-bedro... 6y
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SqueakyChu Thanks! 6y
VioletBramble This is my favorite poem in this collection. I love this book. 6y
kgriffith @VioletBramble I think it‘s mine from this one, as well. 💜 6y
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stillunfinished
stillunfinished
Dearest Creature | Amy Gerstler
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I should have started my #24in48 like this. Alas!

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brendanmleonard
brendanmleonard
Dearest Creature | Amy Gerstler
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The 2nd Gerstler book I've read & loved this year. She's just a fantastic poet, and I love how the poems oscillate from the humorous to the horrific. There's a poem in here about the serial killer H.H. Holmes that is stunning in its effectiveness. Check it out!

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hrniles
hrniles
Dearest Creature | Amy Gerstler
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In Reno, a weird (but lovely) little town, armed with this amazing book of poetry, weird and horrifying and lovely and perfect. An excellent companion to have in foreign cities, working in foreign Starbuckses.

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