Dearest Creature

<b>A surreal new collection from an acclaimed poet</b> <p/>Hallucinogenic plants chant in chorus. A thoughtful dog grants an interview. A caterpillar offers life advice. Amy Gerstler's newest 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 <i>Frankenstein</i> 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.