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Like the clairvoyant speaker in one of the many dramatic monologues in this imaginative collection, Gerstler (True Bride ) seems to have been ``born without immunity / to this din in the air: / the sad humming of the long lost.'' Her characters inhabit the fringes of society: they are saints (``the more neurotic, unattractive / and accident-prone, the better''), homeless men, a sleepwalker and a hypnotist, and the ``bitter angel'' of the title poem, who unceremoniously appears in a ``tinny, nickel-and-dime light.'' Innocents all, these would-be seers bear the burden of a hypersensitivity to the world around them and, because ...
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Like the clairvoyant speaker in one of the many dramatic monologues in this imaginative collection, Gerstler (True Bride ) seems to have been ``born without immunity / to this din in the air: / the sad humming of the long lost.'' Her characters inhabit the fringes of society: they are saints (``the more neurotic, unattractive / and accident-prone, the better''), homeless men, a sleepwalker and a hypnotist, and the ``bitter angel'' of the title poem, who unceremoniously appears in a ``tinny, nickel-and-dime light.'' Innocents all, these would-be seers bear the burden of a hypersensitivity to the world around them and, because of it, share a kind of grace. For the poet, redemption seems to lie in the essential resilience of humanity, and in the belief in an elusive, Edenic landscape where ``for every hurt / there is a leaf to cure it.'' Gerstler balances classical allusion with bold experimentation in voice, form and content, creating a tension that gives her work an urgent, honest edge. (Feb.)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780887482311
  • Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
  • Publication date: 4/28/1998
  • Pages: 79
  • Sales rank: 738,749
  • Series: Classic Contemporaries Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 9.24 (h) x 0.28 (d)

Table of Contents

Siren 3
Clairvoyance 4
Wish in a War Zone 6
Seesaw 7
Doubt 8
The Unforeseen 9
Shrine 10
Rising Up 11
Nature in Literature 12
Ember Days 14
In Perpetual Spring 15
Saints 16
Innocence 17
The Soul Looks Down on the Body 18
A Father at His Son's Baptism 19
Lucky You 21
Lifelong Dialogue 23
Early Hour 24
How to Hypnotize 26
Direct Address 28
Dispersion 29
Approach 30
Earshot 31
A Sleepwalker's Monologue 34
The Ice Age 36
Pillow Talk 39
Slowly I Open My Eyes 40
War Criminal 41
An Unexpected Adventure 42
Della's Modesty 43
Figuren 48
Morning, Noon, and Night 49
Sculpture / The Impatience of Youth 50
Christmas 52
Sexual Monotony 53
The Sexuality of Objects 54
Housebound 57
The Malice of Objects 58
Your Life 61
Marriage 62
Bzzzzzzz 64
Where Shall I Be Tonight? 65
Difficulty at the Beginning 67
Fall 68
Russian Dusk 70
Russian Lullaby 71
Astronomy 72
Lightness 73
Often 74
A Love Poem 75
Before Sex 76
Bitter Angel 77
Overcome 78
The Nature of Suffering 79

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