false 1168806 1 "Amy King's mercurial poems capture the instability of cultural, sexual, and poetic identity. In the circuitry of her illuminated, incongruous, but somehow perfectly apt details, ""the alien befits us."" With a nod to Gertrude Stein and Fernando Pessoa, as well as cameos by Frida Kahlo, Maya Deren, and Claude Cahun, Amy celebrates ""the roles"" of women even as she redefines them, telling us: ""I put on my long black dream/to live among my female brothers."" Playful, provocative, and frenetically lyrical, this is metamorphic poetry for our times. -Elaine Equi Amy King's poetry is carried by a vital and ineluctable complexity, yoking near-Elizabethan conceit to the roughest necessities with disarming sweetness. John Ashbery and Chidiock Tichborne could not have teamed up to do it better. -Annie Finch ""We are not / a great many things, while in fact we are the functions / of those things, and without them, / we are less and more than ever."" You see, there's an underbelly that needs to be got to, and I'M THE MAN WHO LOVES YOU is all about it. Each detail in an Amy King poem seems a world in itself. & it's not like you've never seen details like these. & it's not like you have either. -Rod Smith These poems are meditative, subtle and deeply human, but beneath their cool, often gorgeous surfaces are darker currents, ""holes firing lyrics, free range."" Amy King ""pimps the abyss,"" and she's not joking. Better kiss your ""trucker state"" goodbye. -Linh Dinh" 1156525 2 2 2007 I'm The Man Who Loves You total:57|5:29|4:14|3:3|2:2|1:9| 57 223 171 11 5 4 true false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Jun 18 11:31:51 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 19 07:21:34 -0700 2007
"Amy King's mercurial poems capture the instability of cultural, sexual, and poetic identity. In the circuitry of her illuminated, incongruous, but somehow perfectly apt details, ""the alien befits us."" With a nod to Gertrude Stein and Fernando Pessoa, as wel...more...]]> 5 4 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 22 12:55:48 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 30 09:54:35 -0700 2007 5 2 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Jun 18 11:22:09 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 05 08:21:47 -0700 2007 4 1 false false Tue Sep 16 07:33:35 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 16 07:35:26 -0700 2008 1 2 false false Thu May 22 16:21:37 -0700 2008 Thu May 22 16:22:12 -0700 2008 5 1 false false Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 25 11:30:12 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 13 07:33:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 3 false false Mon Jun 01 16:12:48 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 16:15:45 -0700 2009
David Wolach
Editor, Wheelhouse Magazine & Pres...]]> 5 2 false false Mon May 05 12:34:02 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 25 21:16:19 -0700 2009 "took it back to exchange it for real poems"

HA! I hope you found some "real" poems, Dana McLoughlin. Maybe after you're done reading them you can use them to prop up a real wobbly table leg or something.

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