"Your thoughts become fluid, volatile; their aroma fills the room. This is a nerve storm." In her first collection since Bitter Angel, winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award, Amy Gerstler explores themes of suffering and redemption through a heady blend of folklore, popular culture, and the natural world in Nerve Storm. The poet Eileen Myles has said that "the supernatural, the sexy mundane, the out-of-sight are simply [Gerstler's] materials, employed as they might be in a piece of religious art." A crackling wit and whimsical instinct guide this collection as Gerstler traipses…mehr
"Your thoughts become fluid, volatile; their aroma fills the room. This is a nerve storm." In her first collection since Bitter Angel, winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award, Amy Gerstler explores themes of suffering and redemption through a heady blend of folklore, popular culture, and the natural world in Nerve Storm. The poet Eileen Myles has said that "the supernatural, the sexy mundane, the out-of-sight are simply [Gerstler's] materials, employed as they might be in a piece of religious art." A crackling wit and whimsical instinct guide this collection as Gerstler traipses through humanity's triumphs and blunders, effortlessly revealing the surreal and surprising possibilities inherent in everyday life.
Amy Gerstler is a writer of fiction, poetry, and journalism whose work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including the Paris Review and Best American Poetry. Her 1990 book Bitter Angel won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Previous titles from Penguin are Crown of Weeds, 1997, and Nerve Storm, 1993.
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Nerve StormAcknowledgments Petition Shroud Song Scarlet Fever French Leave Overheard on the Soul Train Ether Rest Cure Mr. Right My Place in His Heart That Calm Sunday That Rolls On and On Freud's Apology A Hypochondriac's Account of Herself My Muse Dust Extended Vacation Around the Block in Eighty Days Suffering in the Old Testament The Mermaid's Purse Lost in the Forest A Sinking Feeling On Wanting to Grow Horns Dead Hunters Diary of a Lonely Antcatcher Grass Losing Heart Dear Rage Management Supervisor, Fugue Duet Queen for a Day The Virility Room Daughter of Eve The Stretcher-bearers Doomsday Nerve Storm The One for Me Sad Women's Harvest Song Duration Modern Madonnas Consolation When empty of light, An Invalid Autobiography About the Author
Nerve StormAcknowledgments Petition Shroud Song Scarlet Fever French Leave Overheard on the Soul Train Ether Rest Cure Mr. Right My Place in His Heart That Calm Sunday That Rolls On and On Freud's Apology A Hypochondriac's Account of Herself My Muse Dust Extended Vacation Around the Block in Eighty Days Suffering in the Old Testament The Mermaid's Purse Lost in the Forest A Sinking Feeling On Wanting to Grow Horns Dead Hunters Diary of a Lonely Antcatcher Grass Losing Heart Dear Rage Management Supervisor, Fugue Duet Queen for a Day The Virility Room Daughter of Eve The Stretcher-bearers Doomsday Nerve Storm The One for Me Sad Women's Harvest Song Duration Modern Madonnas Consolation When empty of light, An Invalid Autobiography About the Author
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