By Amy Gerstler
Amy Gerstler has gained approval for complicated but obtainable poetry that's via turns extravagant, subversive, surreal, and playful. In her new assortment, medication, she deploys a number of dramatic voices, spoken by way of such disparate characters as Cinderella's depraved sisters, the spouse of a nineteenth-century naturalist, a murder detective, and a lady who's fortunately married to a undergo. Their elusive collectivity suggests, Read more...
summary: Amy Gerstler has received approval for complicated but obtainable poetry that's through turns extravagant, subversive, surreal, and playful. In her new assortment, medication, she deploys numerous dramatic voices, spoken through such disparate characters as Cinderella's depraved sisters, the spouse of a nineteenth-century naturalist, a murder detective, and a lady who's fortunately married to a undergo. Their elusive collectivity indicates, yet by no means relatively defines, the floating authorial presence that haunts them. Gerstler's abiding interests--in love and mourning, in technological know-how and pseudo-science, within the concept of an afterlife--are strongly glaring in those new poems, that are filled with powerful emotion, language play, marvelous twists, and a depraved experience of black humor
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A SAGE IN RETIREMENT Still more remote, the time will arrive when we must surrender ourselves to the binder of wounds to be trussed up. Perish that thought. Banish it to Africa. Let it be rocked to sleep in civilization’s cradle. He starts up from his humble bed as if hearing a voice intoning some private joke or an audience chortling loudly afterwards. You must consider the properties of the waters, for they differ in taste and weight. He’s full of electromagnetism and theories about light particles.
Do no harm. The bamboo bench thirsts and creaks at floodtime. So do I, though for the past several generations I’ve been editing my amends: this many-paged treatise on the color of seawater. MEDICINE Are we saviors or sadists? the young doctor asks as he anoints himself with his favorite aftershave. Its name means “effervescent saliva” in French. Brains sit in liquid-filled jars on his polished mahogany desktop. Lopped-off fingers and toes lie in cheesecloth covered beakers on tiered metal shelves, chains of bubbles snaking up from under the nails.
Our search should begin in the area immediately surrounding the body and proceed outward. Apparently all he’s done since his arrest is cry. Did the beefy Dutchman weep as he stabbed her, watched by these primitive winter roses? The badly scratched victim still brandishes a fork. Bits of heavily peppered egg cling to the tines. I think I saw a wound on the back of the Dutchman’s hand that looked like a fork-stab: four tiny holes. Let’s check. Looks like she tried to defend herself with a trowel, too.
