{"product_id":"index-of-women-9780143136217","title":"Index of Women","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom a \"maestra of invention\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) who is at once supremely witty, ferociously smart, and emotionally raw, a new collection of poems about womanhood\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmy 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmy Gerstler \u003c\/b\u003eis a writer of poetry, nonfiction and journalism who lives in Los Angeles. She is the author of ten previous poetry collections, including \u003ci\u003eBitter Angel\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and \u003ci\u003eCrown of Weeds\u003c\/i\u003e, which won a California Book Award. Her most recent collection, \u003ci\u003eScattered at Sea\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and several volumes of \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e. She teaches in the graduate fine arts department at Art Center, College of Design, in Pasadena, California, and is a member of the core faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars MFA program at Bennington College in Vermont.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50479254569234,"sku":"9780143136217","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6f35b572-a2f7-4c93-ae88-8241d7aead36.jpg?v=1730309690","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/index-of-women-9780143136217","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}