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Nerve Storm

Amy Gerstler

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English
Penguin Random House Australia
01 November 1993
Series: Penguin Poets
""Your thoughts become fluid, volatile; their aroma fills the room. This is a nerve storm.""

In her first collection since Bitter Angel, winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award, Amy Gerstlerexplores themes of suffering and redemption through a heady blend of folklore, popular culture, and the natural world in Nerve Storm. The poet Eileen Myles has said that ""the supernatural, the sexy mundane, the out-of-sight are simply

Gerstler's

materials, employed as they might be in a piece of religious art."" A crackling wit and whimsical instinct guide this collection as Gerstler traipses throughhumanity's triumphs and blunders, effortlessly revealing the surreal and surprising possibilities inherent in everyday life.
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Imprint:   Penguin Random House Australia
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 213mm,  Width: 139mm,  Spine: 8mm
Weight:   119g
ISBN:   9780140587036
ISBN 10:   0140587039
Series:   Penguin Poets
Pages:   112
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Amy Gerstler is a writer of fiction, poetry, and journalism whose work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including the Paris Review and Best American Poetry. Her 1990 book Bitter Angel won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Previous titles from Penguin are Crown of Weeds, 1997, and Nerve Storm, 1993.

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