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Humanities Author Series - Amy Gerstler

The School of Humanities Author Series presents

Amy Gerstler

Wednesday, February 13, 2013
6:00 p.m.
Humanities Gateway 1010

Amy Gerstler is a writer of poetry, nonfiction and journalism. Her most recent book of poems, Dearest Creature (2009), was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Poets Prize and the LA Times Book Award in poetry. Her previous twelve books include Ghost Girl, Medicine, Crown of Weeds, which won a California Book Award, Nerve Storm, and Bitter Angel, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. Her work has appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies, including The New Yorker, Paris Review, American Poetry Review, several volumes of Best American Poetry and The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry. She has written a variety of articles and reviews for Village Voice, Los Angeles Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Bookforum, Art and Antiques, and numerous other publications. She has taught at Bennington College, the California Institute of the Arts, Art Center College of Design, Cal Tech, the University of Southern California, the University of Utah and Pitzer College.

Amy Gerstler’s collection of poetry, Dearest Creature, marries fact and fiction in a menagerie of dramatic monologues, twisted love poems, and epistolary pleadings. Drawing on sources as disparate as Lewis Carroll and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, as well as abnormal psychology, etiquette, and archaeology texts, these darkly imaginative poems probe what it means to be a sentient, temporary, flesh-and-blood beast, to be hopelessly, vividly creaturely.

Event is free and open to the public.

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