Another Creature: Poems

by Pamela Gemin

In her quietly ferocious poems, Gemin reminds us again and again of the essential strangeness that lies within the domestic. Her examinations of the quotidian always lead to surprising and pathos-laden reckonings - with the self, with the past, and with the manifold contradictions and menace that exist within contemporary culture. As she memorably puts it in one of the collection's closing poems, If you're willing / to stand still enough / to be stung, you'll see / some astonishing things. Gemin possesses in abundance the courage of this conviction. - David Wojahn, author of Interrogation Palace Passion, hard drinking, bad-boy lovers, life lived on the brink of a dare - all this flares like embers un-banked and newly fed as the speaker of these poems, a woman who 'hangs lace in her kitchen windows' and has reached a safer, more sedate middle-age, calls her past back into being.

Genres: Poetry

96 pages, Paperback

First published April 3, 2010

Reviews

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have been waiting for Pamela Gemin's second book for years. Another Creature is a blend of present life and wisdom to the past and its mistakes and innoncence (and not so innocent times). A great read!