Amy Gerstler on Is This My Final Form?

This week: Acclaimed poet Amy Gerstler, author of 11 collections including Scattered at Sea, long-listed for the National Book Award and Creature, a New York Times Notable Book. Amy Gerstler’s newest book is out, a collection titled Is This My Final Form?, a funny, smart, polemical engagement or perhaps demand that we “keep walking,” keep living, keep noticing, keep evolving, keep celebrating. Of the three dozens poems collected here, some appeared originally in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Columbia Poetry Review and Mississippi Review.  The book is out now --- happy spring! --- from Penguin and includes many forms --- odes, sonnets, and even a long poem which announces itself as a one-act play. I’m pleased that she reads half a dozen poems from the book for us. The views expressed in this program are those of its presenter and guests, and do not necessarily reflect the values of the Community of Writers or its Board of Directors.