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Amy King

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http://amyking.org

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Poetry, Literature & Fiction, Gay & Lesbian

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June 2007

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Reviews of I'M THE MAN WHO LOVES YOU

Alexander Dickow / Jacket Magazine
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Matt Hart / Coldfront Mag
[http://reviews.coldfrontmag.com/2007/06/im_the_man_who_.html]

Thomas Fink / Galatea Resurrects
[http://galatearesurrection6.blogspot.com/2007/05/im-man-who-loves-you-by-amy-king.html ]

Recent Reviews of ANTIDOTES FOR AN ALIBI

Adam Fieled / Stoning the Devil
[http://adamfieled.blogspot.com/2007/05/book-review-amy-king-antidote-for-alibi.html]

Barry Schwabsky / Octopus Magazine
[http://www.octopusmagazine.com/issue07/html/review_index.htm#k]

WHAT TO WEAR DURING AN ORANGE ALERT?

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books by Amy King

avg rating: 4.31 | 177 ratings | 27 reviews | 10 distinct works | 15 fans

	I'm The Man Who Loves You by Amy King (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.89 — 56 ratings — published 2007	my rating:
	Kiss Me With the Mouth of Your Country by Amy King (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.25 — 36 ratings — published 2007	my rating:
	Antidotes for an Alibi by Amy King (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.44 — 32 ratings — published 2007	my rating:
	The Good Campaign by Amy King (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.56 — 16 ratings — published 2006	my rating:
	This Opera of Peace by Amy King (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.92 — 12 ratings — published 2008	my rating:
	On the Fly by Amy King (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.50 — 10 ratings — published 2005	my rating:
	The People Instruments by Amy King (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.57 — 7 ratings — published 2002	my rating:
	Slaves to Do These Things by Amy King (Goodreads author) avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published 2009	my rating:
	OCHO #1 by Jenni Russell, Amy King (Goodreads author) , Didi Menendez (Goodreads author) (editor), Pris Campbell (Goodreads author) , Ron Androla (Goodreads author) , John Korn (Goodreads author) , Jack Anders, Laurel K. Dodge avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published 2006	my rating:
	Spin Control: Techniques for Spinning the Yarns You Want by Amy King (Goodreads author) avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 2009	my rating:

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PLEASE VOTE FOR TWO POEMS FOR DEC. & JAN. GOODREADS NEWSLETTER (Poetry)

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description: Please vote in the Poetry Group Poll from the ten poems selected below! <b><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/4342.Please_vote_for_the_top_two_po">CLICK HERE TO VOTE IN THE POLL!</a></b> ~~~~~~ ORIGINAL CALL: * DO YOU WANT YOUR WORDS TO MEET 1.6 MILLION PEOPLE? * The Goodreads’ editors have invited us to participate in the selection of each poem that will appear in the Goodreads’ Monthly Newsletter. 1. Post your best poem (one poem per person) in this folder. 2. I will select five poems each month to be voted on by the Goodreads community. 3. The poem with the most votes will be published in the Goodreads’ newsletter – distributed each month to 1.6 million people! Good luck & please post your best work! Thanks, Amy King Moderator

Amy is currently reading

	10/27 Amy is currently reading: My Heart Laid Bare by Charles Baudelaire bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	07/29 Amy gave to: Dusie Issue 8 (ebook) by Dusie bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	03/09 Amy is currently reading: Book Left Open in the Rain (paperback) by Barry Schwabsky (Goodreads author) bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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November 04

Amy made a comment in the group ¡ POETRY !—PLEASE VOTE FOR NOVEMBER'S GOODREADS' POEM topic:

Amy wrote: "Malcolm,

Your conclusion that "no rhyming poems" have been selected is just false. Before you boast ...more "

October 31

Amy said "yes" to attending the event: PLEASE VOTE FOR NOVEMBER'S GOODREADS' POEM / Poetry Group Conduct.
date: November 06, 2009 10:00AM
location: Goodreads Poetry! Group, 123 GOODREADS STREET, Brooklyn, NY, The United States
description: Dear Poetry Group Members,

Some confusion ensued two days ago when I sent out an email to all
members of the Poetry Group asking everyone to avoid name calling and
other offensive types of posts. The person who was name calling has
now left the group, though I would appreciate folks letting me know if
this behavior appears again on the forum in the future.

Also, please be aware that the voting for the November Goodreads'
Newsletter contest has star...more

October 27

Amy is currently reading:
My Heart Laid Bare
by Charles Baudelaire

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Stars of the Night Commute (Paperback)
by Ana Bozicevic (Goodreads author)

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God, Sebastian, Amy (hand-stitched chapbook)
by Ana Bozicevic (Goodreads author)

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The Stars on the 7:18 to Penn
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Slaves to Do These Things (Paperback)
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October 19

Amy made a comment in the group ¡ POETRY !—Stain of Poetry Fall readings and fresh Spring/Summer 2009 videos! topic:

Amy wrote: "Dear listeners, readers, poets of every stripe:

It's cold outside, but there's plenty to do indoors...more "

October 18

Amy made a comment in the group ¡ POETRY !—Verse broadens the mind, scientists find topic:

Amy wrote: "Verse broadens the mind, scientists find

RICHARD GRAY (rgray@scotlandonsunday.com)

IF LITERATURE is fo...more Verse broadens the mind, scientists find

RICHARD GRAY (rgray@scotlandonsunday.com)

IF LITERATURE is food for the  mind, then a poem is a banquet, according to research by Scottish scientists  which shows poetry is better for the brain than prose.

Psychologists at Dundee and St Andrews universities claim the work of poets such as Lord Byron exercise the mind more than a novel by Jane Austen. By monitoring the way different forms of text are read, they found poetry generated far more eye  movement which is associated with deeper thought.

Subjects were found to read  poems slowly, concentrating and re-reading individual lines more than they did with  prose. Preliminary studies using brain-imaging technology also showed greater  levels of cerebral activity when people listened to poems being read aloud. Dr Jane Stabler, a literature expert at St Andrews University and a member of the research group, believes poetry  may stir latent preferences in the brain for rhythm and rhymes that develop  during childhood. She claims the intense imagery woven through poems, and  techniques used by poets to unsettle their readers, force them to think more  carefully about each line. "There seems to be an almost immediate  recognition that this is a different sort of language that needs to be  approached in a way that will be more attentive to the density of words in  poetry," she said. "It may be because readers are trying to hear the  words or recreate the imaginary event the poet has provided a script for. " Also, children seem to be born with a love of rhyme and rhythm. Then  something happens and by the time we see them in the first year at university  many of them are almost frightened of poetry and clamouring to study the  contemporary novel."
To study readers’ reactions,  the research group focused an infrared beam on the pupils of their eyes to  detect minute movements as they read.

They found poetry produced  all the standard psychological indications associated with intellectual  difficulty, such as slow deliberate movement, re-reading sections and long  pauses. Even when they used identical content but displayed it in both a poem  format and a prose format, they discovered readers found the poem form the more  difficult to understand. Stabler said: "When readers decide that something  is a poem, they read in a different way. As literary critics we would like to  think that this is a more thoughtful way, more receptive to the text’s richness  and complexity, but in psychological terms it is the same sort of reading  produced by a dyslexic reader who finds reading difficult. "We focused on  poetry that disturbs or unsettles readers like the work of Lord Byron. "We  found that his stanza form in Don Juan does make subjects read more quickly  than readers focusing on the rhymes of an elegy in a similar metre."

Stabler believes those  reading other poets, such as Robert Burns, would show similar increases in  brain activity.

The group hopes to use  Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans to watch how the brain reacts as people  listen to poetry and prose. Early results suggest a larger area of the brain  lights up in the scans upon hearing poetry by Byron than prose by Austen. The  research has profound implications for the way English literature is taught in  schools, and Stabler believes they should consider placing greater emphasis on  teaching youngsters poetry.

Both rhythm and rhyme have been found to be  intricately linked with making and recalling memories. Stabler asked: "If  poetry helps to stir memory, might it be useful in the treatment of age-related  or injury related memory problems?" Dr Martin Fischer, an experimental  psychologist at Dundee University involved in the project, claims the findings could  also form the basis for producing new techniques for helping dyslexic children.  He said: "It certainly has implications for children who have certain  difficulties, like in dyslexia where a rhyming deficiency could be compensated  for by exposing them to more poetry."

Members of the literary world have  welcomed the research and insist it underlines the importance poetry has played  in literature. Bestselling crime novelist Ian Rankin said too many people felt  intimidated by poetry without realising it was designed to be challenging. He  said: "Novels first began as a form of poetry where story telling was used  to pass tales from one generation to the next. This was done with rhythm and  rhyme as it made the stories easier to remember. "We are even seeing that  today with song lyrics - the only way rap artists can remember all those lyrics  is because they have rhythm and rhyme. "Not many people pick up books of  poetry anymore to read. You have to wonder if people find them too hard. " Edwin Morgan, the nation’s official Makar, the Scottish equivalent of the poet  laureate, added: "Writing poetry is almost a physical experience as well  as mental. Children are rarely worried about extracting too much meaning from  poems, but they seem to get a much deeper experience from it."
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Can't remember the title of a book you read a while back? Come post a description on our message board and we can try to help each other out.

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Who love to LOVE can joy with us. Who love to PLAY can joy with us. Who love to RELAX can joy with us. Who love our IDEA can joy with us.
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the right word...that's what we are all looking for ...Yes
But beyond words, what do we find...A BIG STORY
Etymology, words history....let's...more

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bookbooks, chaps, e-chaps by Dusie Press authors...

All Books listed here are by poets published by Dusie...more

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message 37: by Patricia

Nov 04, 2009 03:12PM

Thank You so much for adding me as a friend.

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message 36: by Wendy

Oct 16, 2009 10:07AM

Hi Amy! I finally listened to This Opera of Peace. Very ambitious! I enjoyed it. I loved this line especially: "I have been the cradle of maybe." Yes!

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message 35: by Snarky's

Oct 05, 2009 06:37PM

Hi Amy! Just checking in to say I love your work!!!

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message 34: by Heather

Aug 08, 2009 12:54AM

Hello Amy,

Have a great weekend!

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message 33: by Lori

Jun 01, 2009 07:02PM

Thank you for the add.

Have a great week.

Lori

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message 32: by Jeannie

Feb 06, 2009 06:15AM

Thanks Amy for the friendship. Hope you have an awesome wkend!
Blessings,
Jeannie

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message 31: by Brooklyn

Jan 27, 2009 11:13AM

Thanks for the add!
Brooklyn Darkchild
Author
This Ain't No Hearts and Flowers Love Story Pt1

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message 30: by Frank (Craig)

Nov 28, 2008 11:01PM

thanks for inviting me

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message 29: by Roger

Nov 10, 2008 10:24PM

Hi Amy.
Thankyou vert much for the friendship on Goodreads,
ROGER

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message 28: by Nate

Nov 04, 2008 07:22AM

Hi Amy!

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message 27: by Rachel

Oct 09, 2008 08:05PM

Hi Amy! Just dropping in to say hello and I was listening a few days ago, to the CD you sent me, while dying my hair blonde. The blonde didn't work out so well, but I had a good time singing.

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message 26: by Matt

Sep 17, 2008 07:41PM

I believe so!

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message 25: by Dee

Aug 07, 2008 08:55AM

Hi Amy!
Thanks for the friendship!
Have a good one!

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message 24: by Donald

Jul 01, 2008 06:42AM

Thanks for the ipoetryi invite but I'm not a poet, don't know what I could offer.
best,
db

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message 23: by Sean

Jun 16, 2008 05:57AM

I apologise for my late reply.
Oh, you get it on the radio I thought you were talking about the television channel.

It doesn't sound like an easy thing to live with put it that way, must be a big strain on your life. But you sound as if your getting through which is good. :)
That's alright.

Thank you.

Speak soon,

Sean.

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message 22: by Michele

Jun 12, 2008 06:53PM

Cool picture and thanks for the ad, Michele Marchetti
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Looking for pt/ft help nationwide

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message 21: by Sean

Jun 11, 2008 01:32PM

You've been sick for almost three months? Wow, I can’t even begin to imagine how irritating that must have become. Nothing serious was up I hope? I can't say I've ever heard of the condition I'll have to whack it in Google and find out. Oh its blackouts? I've heard of this before but didn’t actually know what it was called. It sounds quite serious, but I'm glad you’re better now. :D

I'll have a look on Amazon later and see if I can get hold of it and I'll keep a look out for the sample.
I'm good thanks, been busy with exams though but so glad there finally over now.
London isn’t too bad, the weathers got good these last few days which makes a change.
Oh yeah there’s always arguments over politics here in England, you get the BBC over there then? Didn’t think you would.

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message 20: by Sean

Jun 11, 2008 10:55AM

How are you?
& Where can I order your books online? :)

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message 19: by Sean (last edited Jun 11, 2008 10:50AM)

Jun 11, 2008 10:50AM

Hi Amy! :)

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message 18: by Anne

Mar 28, 2008 11:41AM

Thanks for the add, Amy - lovely to meet you here!

Hugs!

A
xxx

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message 17: by W.

Mar 06, 2008 02:05PM

Hi Amy, The books arrived and are being enjoyed. THANK YOU! I will look forward to saying something about them in a public forum very soon.

Make more!

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message 16: by Catherine

Feb 28, 2008 07:43AM

Hi Amy - nice to meet you! :-)
I haven't had a chance to read your poetry yet but I look forward to it. And what lovely book covers!

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message 15: by Zlyoc

Feb 25, 2008 02:13AM

thanx for the add. cheers!

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message 14: by W.

Feb 02, 2008 02:37PM

In the Kingdom of the Prolific, you are Queen. I see you sitting on a Carnelian Throne with Goldfinches Alighting.

The H.D. touches, you know.

You should send me something to review sometime.

My reviewing is mostly confined to my blog as I sort of segregate myself from Literature Proper.

But I would still like to get a freebie and talk about you.

If you're down get back and I'll give you my addy for snails.

If not, I'll eventually weaken and buy something.

:-)

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message 13: by Jeremy

Jan 24, 2008 12:59AM

I want to apologize for the all the recommendations from me yesterday. I wanted to share the Stoker Award news, and I only pressed the send button once--I'm not sure what happened to create so many messages. Some weird glitch.

Argh...this is terrible...

Again, I'm very sorry.

-Jeremy

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message 12: by Jeremy

Jan 01, 2008 02:08PM

Here’s wishing you a nifty New Year filled with noiseless noses, neato nicknames, noble Nebraskans, gnarly narcoleptic nebulas, and novel novels about nut-eating narwhals and novercaphobic gnats.

-Jeremy :)

P.S.—I’m currently offering autographed/personally-inscribed copies of my novel, Vacation, with free shipping for those in the US. If there’s anything you could do to help me spread the word about this, I’d really appreciate it. Feel free to click here for details:
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message 11: by Jeremy

Dec 24, 2007 12:40AM

Hi Amy!

Here’s wishing you a yippee-filled Yuletime overflowing with yard-long yams, yapping yoyo-yanking yetis, yak-milk yeast-cakes, and yellow yarn-yielding year-end yard-gnomes.

-Jeremy :)

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message 10: by Jeremy

Dec 04, 2007 04:21AM

Hi Amy!

If you don't mind sharing--I was wondering, what's your favorite novel of all time? Or novels?

Here’s wishing you a fantastic day filled with fabulous friendships, fanciful festivities, and frolicking phantom footstools.

-Jeremy :)

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message 9: by Author-Poet

Oct 06, 2007 01:23PM

Hello Amy--
It's great to meet such a prolific author here at GoodReads. Looking forward to becoming more familiar with your work. Peace,

Aberjhani
http://www.creativethinkersintl.ning.com...

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message 8: by Daniel

Sep 10, 2007 08:44AM

Amy, my favorite poem is the Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam. You and I have both discovered our own distinct nitches in this literary jungle. Whether our work lasts as long as that of Omar Khayyam remains to be seen.

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message 7: by Andrew

Sep 01, 2007 10:17AM