01915cam a2200349 i 4500 2698198233 TxAuBib 20260305120000.0 240923s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024043970 9780143138488 trade paperback 0143138480 trade paperback (OCoLC)1445769546 TxAuBib rda Gerstler, Amy, author. Is this my final form? / Amy Gerstler. New York, NY : Penguin Books, [2025] 82 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Penguin poets Penguin poets "A poet renowned for her 'wit and complexity' (Poetry Foundation) explores the endless evolution and malleability of life on earth in her most curious, inventive collection to date. Aren't we all shape-shifters? Is any animal, vegetable, or mineral-even a commonplace object-what it seems to be at any given moment? Who isn't juggling constant transformations, conflicting roles, changing loyalties, loves, perceptions, and selves, all while being pummeled by shifting devotions, emotions, and obsessions? Do even the dead continue to evolve in surprising ways? Reveling in these questions, Gerstler's latest protean poetry collection includes loose sonnets, shapely praise of Mae West, the lament of an actor who can't shed his costume, dramatic monologues, whiffs of gender slippage, a love lyric to the bride of Frankenstein, a lullaby for adults, and a ten-minute play"-- Provided by publisher. 20260305. 2000-2099. American poetry 21st century. American poetry. fast Poetry. fast Penguin poets. Penguin poets.