Index of Women

Women's voices, from childhood to old age, dominate this new collection of rants, dramatic monologues, confessions, and laments by Amy Gerstler. 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 comical and prayerlike, these poems wrestle with mortality, animality, love, gender, and what it is to be human.