Is This My Final Form? (Penguin Poets) - Softcover

Amy Gerstler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143138480 ISBN 13: 9780143138488

Publisher: Penguin Books - USA, 2025

Synopsis

Aren't we all shape-shifters? Is any animal, vegetable, or mineral - even a commonplace object - what it seems to be at any given moment? Who isn't juggling constant transformations, conflicting roles, changing loyalties, loves, perceptions, and selves, all while being pummelled by shifting devotions, emotions, and obsessions? Do even the dead continue to evolve in surprising ways? Revelling in these questions, Gerstler's latest protean poetry collection includes loose sonnets, shapely praise of Mae West, the lament of an actor who can't shed his costume, dramatic monologues, whiffs of gender slippage, a love lyric to the bride of Frankenstein, and a ten-minute play.

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About the Author

Amy Gerstler is a writer of poetry, art criticism, journalism and plays. She has published thirteen books of poems, a children's book and several collaborative artists books with visual artists. In 2019, she received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts CD Wright Grant. In 2018, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Scattered at Sea, a book of her poems published by Penguin in 2015 was longlisted for the National Book Award. Her book Bitter Angel won a National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work has appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies, including The New Yorker, Paris Review, The Atlantic, American Poetry Review, Poetry, several volumes of Best American Poetry and The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Books - USA
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0143138480
• ISBN 13: 9780143138488
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112