Index of Women

<b>From a maestra of invention (<i>The New York Times</i>) who is at once supremely witty ferociously smart and emotionally raw a new collection of poems about womanhood</b> <p/>Amy Gerstler has won acclaim for sly sophisticated and subversive poems that find meaning in unexpected places. Women's voices from childhood to old age dominate this new collection of rants dramatic monologues confessions and laments. A young girl muses on virginity. An aging opera singer rages against the fact that she must quit drinking. A woman in a supermarket addresses a head of lettuce. The tooth fairy finally speaks out. Both comic and prayer-like these poems wrestle with mortality animality love gender and what it is to be human.