Index of Women

Praise for the poetry of Amy Gerstler:

"[Gerstler's poetry is] extremely rich. But not cluttered and not loud . . . the supernatural, the sexy mundane, the out-of-sight are simply her materials, employed as they might be in a piece of religious art." - Eileen Myles, author of Evolution

"[Gerstler's] poem has me crying in the airport." - Ada Limón, author of Bright Dead Things

"[Gerstler has been] one of my favorite poets since I read her book Bitter Angel. Now I have every book of hers on my shelves." - Maggie Smith, author of Good Bones

"[Gerstler's poems are] charming and smart and emotionally targeted . . . clever [and] emotionally resonant . . . Witty, irreverent, self-deprecating--fundamentally kind." - Los Angeles Review of Books

"In Gerstler, we see how effective a quiet ruminative and contemplative poem can be . . . On the other hand, [Gerstler's] complex, humorous prose poems which can be as immediate and imagistic as a germ." - American Poetry Review

Praise for Amy Gerstler's previous collection, Scattered at Sea:

"This wry book is like a wave that knocks you over and changes how you view the world . . . [It] mixes salty humor, invigorating rhythms and sharp-edged wisdom." - The Washington Post

"Scattered at Sea takes deep, often beautiful dips into matters of femininity, sexuality, and mortality, while staying fleet, feisty, and musical enough to feel like short adventures . . . Gerstler's real strength is in the way she collides the sensual with the spiritual. . .the world she creates is beautifully diffuse, as freeform as her poems are." - The Boston Globe