| Another
Creature
Poems by Pamela Gemin
These expansive poems follow a woman through both her mistaken
and wise ways
“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.”
—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. Another
Creature reminds us that we can remain, under the surface,
the wild, hopeful, headstrong ‘creatures’ of our
youth.”
—Leslie Ullman, author of Slow
Work Through Sand
“What verve and gumption, what generosity in these poems!
. . . Gemin’s voice is bold and nuanced, her art supple
and sure. She moves with utter grace through the sound track
of adolescence into the music of midlife with its subtle complications,
and she gives us a beatific vision of ourselves. Gemin is
a gem of a poet and this book is a true gift.”
—Betsy Sholl, author of Rough Cradle
In Another
Creature Pamela Gemin reconciles her generation’s
impulse toward personal freedom with its costs as she moves
her cast of innocents and outlaws through Midwestern landscapes
embroidered with green lawns, blue lakes and raspberry patches
eerily wired for sound. Hers are hungry poems, in and of the
world, expounding the “flavors and hues, the fragrance
and skin / of the merchandise of Earth.”
Pamela Gemin
teaches at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and is author
of the poetry collection, Vendettas, Charms, and Prayers.
She is also the editor of three poetry anthologies including
Sweeping Beauty: Women Poets Do Housework. Her poems
and anthologies have been featured on NPR’s Morning
Edition, All Things Considered, and Writer’s
Almanac.
April
$16.00 paper
5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄2, 96 pages
ISBN 978-1-55728-928-5
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