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Index of Women
Index of Women | Amy Gerstler
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From a maestra of invention (The New York Times) who is at once supremely witty, ferociously smart, and emotionally raw, a new collection of poems about womanhood Amy Gerstler has won acclaim for sly, sophisticated, and subversive poems that find meaning in unexpected places. Women's voices, from childhood to old age, dominate this new collection of rants, dramatic monologues, confessions and laments. A young girl muses on virginity. An aging opera singer rages against the fact that she must quit drinking. A woman in a supermarket addresses a head of lettuce. The tooth fairy finally speaks out. Both comic and prayer-like, these poems wrestle with mortality, animality, love, gender, and what it is to be human.
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Index of Women | Amy Gerstler
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The centuries slippery as spilled milk during
coronavirus confinement. We're all monks now
one monk joked in a Catholic newsletter I glanced
at online. Maybe time melts when one's confined to quarters, staring at photos of beautiful ruins,
statues sans noses, some with only half a face, each looking as though, despite losses and griefs, she might speak.

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charl08
Index of Women | Amy Gerstler
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She proposes / to me so frequently I can't hear other people / speak....

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Index of Women | Amy Gerstler
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“the alphabet's letters are my tribe
and I mean to live quietly among them
bending my body into meaningful shapes
perhaps entangled with yours
using our whole persons to confess
what can't be, by any other means,
comprehended or expressed“

No one shapes language quite like Amy Gerstler. Highly recommending her new collection of poems: sharply imagined, beautifully wrought, and a pleasure to the ear.