Nerve Storm

"Your thoughts become fluid, volatile; their aroma fills the room. This is a nerve storm." In her first collection since Bitter Angel , winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award, Amy Gerstler   explores themes of suffering and redemption through a heady blend of folklore, popular culture, and the natural world in Nerve Storm . The poet Eileen Myles has said that "the supernatural, the sexy mundane, the out-of-sight are simply [Gerstler's] materials, employed as they might be in