Dusk
by Amy Gerstler • from Dearest Creature • Penguin Books
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Amy Gerstler
Amy Gerstler's previous eleven books include Medicine; Crown of Weeds, which won a California Book Award; Nerve Storm; and Bitter Angel, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Dearest CreatureThese darkly imaginative poems probe what it means to be a sentient, temporary, flesh-and-blood beast, to be hopelessly, vividly creaturely.
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"I've never had the pleasure of fondling a trout. Like most of us, I've encountered that noble fish only when picking at its rosy flesh in a truite meunière with the tines of my fork, and even then gingerly. But when I read Hopkins' line 'for rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim,' I feel for a moment as though my fingers have grazed the thing itself. I delight in this illusion partly because words, for once, seem to have acquired the quick slippery density of a living creature; to have assumed heft and texture; to have become equivalent to the object of which they are normally only the sign. Partly too, I admire it for the impossibility of the endeavor... As it happens, Hopkins' line was one that Elizabeth Bishop particularly admired..."—Eric Ormsby MORE
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