Ghost Girl

Sly and sophisticated direct playful and profound Amy Gerstler's new collection highlights her distinctive poetic style. In thirty-seven poems using a variety of dramatic voices and visual techniques she finds meaning in unexpected places from a tour of a doll hospital to an ad for a CD of Beethoven symphonies to an earthy exploration of toast. Gerstler's abiding interests--in love and mourning in science and pseudoscience in the idea of an afterlife in seances and magic--are all represented here. Entertaining and erudite complex yet accessible these poems will enhance Gerstler's reputation as an important contemporary poet.