{"product_id":"9781101144985","title":"Dearest Creature","description":"\u003cb\u003eA surreal new collection from an acclaimed poet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHallucinogenic plants chant in chorus. A thoughtful dog grants an interview. A caterpillar offers life advice. Amy Gerstler’s newest collection of poetry, Dearest Creature, marries fact and fiction in a menagerie of dramatic monologues, twisted love poems, and epistolary pleadings. Drawing on sources as disparate as Lewis Carroll and Mary Shelley’s \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as abnormal psychology, etiquette, and archaeology texts, these darkly imaginative poems probe what it means to be a sentient, temporary, flesh-and-blood beast, to be hopelessly, vividly creaturely.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072692273392,"sku":"9781101144985","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101144985_p0.jpg?v=1763685197","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101144985","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}