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Disaster, to me, means in some big or small way, things going wrong. And that's obviously a matter of perception, right? Let's say your puppy chewed up all the shoes in your house. She probably had a fine time doing that. In her mind, a red letter day, the highlight of her puppy life.
~ Amy Gerstler
Big
Chewed
Day
Disaster
Doing
Fine
Going
Had
Her
Highlight
House
Letter
Life
Matter
Me
Means
Mind
Obviously
Perception
Puppy
Red
Right
Say
She
Shoes
Small
Some
Things
Time
Up
Way
Wrong
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Film and TV are the most popular mediums in America. Literature and poetry are possibly the most under-recognized art forms.
~ Amy Gerstler
America
Art
Art Forms
Film
Film And TV
Forms
Literature
Mediums
Most
Poetry
Popular
Possibly
TV
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I am introverted and a complete klutz.
~ Amy Gerstler
Am
Complete
I Am
Introverted
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I don't like scaring people off. When I tell people I'm a writer, they look kind of interested. Then I tell them that I write poetry, and they think I'm weird.
~ Amy Gerstler
I Write
Interested
Kind
Like
Look
Off
People
Poetry
Tell
Them
Then
Think
Weird
Write
Writer
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I don't write to create performance material; I write to make books.
~ Amy Gerstler
Books
Create
I Write
Make
Material
Performance
Write
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I think part of being human is learning to roll with the punches, to deal with any kind of personal or professional disaster that might crop up. You have to learn to deal with that stuff or not survive.
~ Amy Gerstler
Any
Being
Being Human
Crop
Deal
Disaster
Human
I Think
Kind
Learn
Learning
Might
Part
Personal
Professional
Punches
Roll
Stuff
Survive
Think
Up
You
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I've always liked wearing black. Hats with veils would suit me just fine.
~ Amy Gerstler
Always
Black
Fine
Hats
Just
Liked
Me
Suit
Wearing
Would
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Ideally, I'd love to write poems that intrigued humans across the board: literary folk and academics as well as... dog-walkers, doctors, plumbers, chefs, math professors, jugglers, etc.
~ Amy Gerstler
Academics
Across
Board
Chefs
Doctors
Etc
Folk
Humans
Ideally
Intrigued
Literary
Love
Math
Poems
Professors
Well
Write
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Like many confused and evolving humans, I live in constant danger of transformation.
~ Amy Gerstler
Confused
Constant
Danger
Evolving
Humans
Like
Live
Many
Transformation
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Most people who write and publish poetry teach or do something else.
~ Amy Gerstler
Else
Most
People
Poetry
Publish
Something
Something Else
Teach
Who
Write
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My main ambition as a teenager was to somehow resurrect the dark-minded writer Franz Kafka and become his girlfriend.
~ Amy Gerstler
Ambition
Become
Girlfriend
His
Kafka
Main
Somehow
Teenager
Writer
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My work is mostly about longing, human relationships, science and children - and a little bit about ghosts and reincarnation.
~ Amy Gerstler
About
Bit
Children
Ghosts
Human
Human Relationships
Little
Little Bit
Longing
Mostly
Reincarnation
Relationships
Science
Work
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One of those quiet types who logs a lot of time in the bedlam of her head, I sometimes need to be startled awake to the fact that the outside world still exists.
~ Amy Gerstler
Awake
Exists
Fact
Head
Her
Log
Lot
Need
Outside
Outside World
Quiet
Sometimes
Still
Those
Time
Types
Who
World
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Only recently have I realized that being different is not something you want to hide or squelch or suppress.
~ Amy Gerstler
Being
Being Different
Different
Hide
Only
Realized
Recently
Something
Suppress
Want
You
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There is an element in some of my work that has to do with being an outsider, feeling like not part of the dominant culture.
~ Amy Gerstler
Being
Culture
Dominant
Element
Feeling
Like
Outsider
Part
Some
Work
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With contemporary poetry having approximately as many fans outside the immediate field as there are devotees of undergoing knee surgery, any sentient, breathing reader who's genuinely interested in poetry... not scared of it... seems a godsend.
~ Amy Gerstler
Any
Approximately
Breathing
Contemporary
Fans
Field
Genuinely
Having
Immediate
Interested
Knee
Many
Outside
Poetry
Reader
Scared
Seems
Sentient
Surgery
Undergoing
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