Crown of Weeds : Poems

by Gerstler, Amy

• ISBN13: 9780140587784
• ISBN10: 0140587780
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-03-01
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Summary

An award-winning poet explores language and love in a powerful, diverse collection of poetry. Amy Gertsler's latest collection engages the reader with a sensibility that is by turns extravagant, wistful, erudite, playful, and profound. Love lies in wait in these poems, populated with such as deserters from circuses, recipes, and the scent of geraniums. Gerstler twines language into sublime confections of elegance and silliness, seeking support between progress and pathology.

Table of Contents

Recipe for Resurrection	1	(2)
To a Newborn	3	(3)
Circus Girl	6	(2)
Travel Diary	8	(1)
Recipe for Trouble	9	(2)
Asylum	11	(2)
Ash Wednesday	13	(3)
Bedlam	16	(3)
April	19	(1)
A Measured Joy	20	(2)
Request	22	(2)
Montage of Disasters	24	(2)
Song	26	(2)
Mixed Messages	28	(2)
My Hero	30	(2)
A Love Story	32	(2)
A Fan Letter	34	(4)
Four Meditations on an Ice Puddle	38	(3)
On the Road	41	(2)
Blown Out	43	(2)
The Superior Man	45	(2)
Psychotown	47	(1)
Her Account of Herself	48	(2)
Introducing: The Clouds	50	(2)
Sworn Statement	52	(2)
Dog World	54	(2)
Jews	56	(3)
Group Portrait, with Pitchforks	59	(2)
Chain of Events	61	(3)
Crown of Weeds	64	(2)
The Wanderer	66	(1)
Nowadays	67	(2)
Cul-de-sac	69	(3)
Commentary	72	(2)
The Underworld	74	(1)
Dry-eyed Survivor	75	(2)
She Senses the Presence of a Dead Suitor in Her Room	77	(3)
Blur	80	(2)
To My Brother	82	(2)
Miasma	84	(2)
Colorlessness	86