Crown of Weeds (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Amy Gerstler
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: Culture, Suffering, Self, Sin or Original sin, Cancer, Death or dying, Hell, Identity, Disasters, Consciousness, Saints or sainthood, Animals, Heaven
Amy Gerstler’s collection Bitter Angel (1990) won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 1991 and was widely reviewed and appreciated; critics commented on her unconventional, striking imagery, praising her surreal images and strange narrators. Bitter Angel was her sixth book of poems (she has also written fiction), but it was the first to attract wide notice. Reviewers across the United States noted the originality of the work, and its flaws were seen as outweighed by its overall effectiveness. In The Washington Post Book World, Michael Dirda commented on the...
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