Amy Gerstler Quotes

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Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic. Maybe a field of dracaena, or a vast stand of sugar pines—generous, gum-yielding trees—to fill our minds with vegetable wonder and keep dread at bay.

Amy Gerstler

Love doesn't reside in the heart, anyway. Love resides in the liver along with jaundice.

Amy Gerstler

People hit the sauce in a big way all winter. Amidst blizzards they wrestle unsuccessfully with the dark comedy of their lives, laughter trapped in their frigid gizzards. Meanwhile, the mercury just plummets, like a migrating duck blasted out of the sky by some hunter in a cap with fur earflaps.

Amy Gerstler

Amy Gerstler

Amy Gerstler

Born: 1956 (age 70)

Bio: Amy Gerstler is an American poet. Her books of poetry include Ghost Girl ; Medicine - finalist for the Phi Beta Kappa Poetry Award; Crown of Weeds ; Nerve Storm ; Bitter Angel - winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award - The True Bride and Dearest Creature,.

Known for:

Scattered at Sea (2015)
Bitter angel (1990)
Dearest Creature (2009)
Ghost girl (2004)
Crown of weeds (1997)

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