{"product_id":"9780140589245","title":"Medicine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmy Gerstler\u003c\/b\u003e has won acclaim for complex yet accessible poetry that is by turns extravagant, subversive, surreal, and playful. In her new collection, \u003cb\u003eMedicine\u003c\/b\u003e, she deploys a variety of dramatic voices, spoken by such disparate characters as Cinderella's wicked sisters, the wife of a nineteenth-century naturalist, a homicide detective, and a woman who is happily married to a bear. Their elusive collectivity suggests, but never quite defines, the floating authorial presence that haunts them. Gerstler's abiding interests—in love and mourning, in science and pseudo-science, in the idea of an afterlife—are strongly evident in these new poems, which are full of strong emotion, language play, surprising twists, and a wicked sense of black humor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022048641264,"sku":"9780140589245","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780140589245_p0.jpg?v=1763655470","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780140589245","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}