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Amy King
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PUBLISHED: Dec.06.2011

I Want to Make You Safe

"Rarely have the nude and the cooked been so neatly joined” as in Amy King’s I Want to Make You Safe. If “us,” “herons,” and “dust” rhyme, then these poems rhyme. If that makes you feel safe, it shouldn’t. Amy King’s poems are exuberant, strange, and a bit grotesque. They’re spring-loaded and ready for trouble. Categories collapse. These are the new “thunderstorms with...

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PUBLISHED: Dec.01.2009

Slaves to Do These Things

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PUBLISHED: Sep.26.2008

I'M THE MAN WHO LOVES YOU

I’m the Man Who Loves You works beautifully, and it’s a book worth spending some time working through. For all its flashy machinations, the book remains surprisingly human and knowingly lovely in love. --Matt Hart, Coldfront Magazine ~~~ Amy King’s lexical palette is enormous, but her language remains economical to the extent that it evacuates the flabby redundancies and laziness...

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PUBLISHED: Sep.27.2008

KISS ME WITH THE MOUTH OF YOUR COUNTRY

Feel free to access the e-book here: http://www.dusie.org/KISSMEWITHTHEMOUTHOFYOURCOUNTRY.pdf

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ANTIDOTES FOR AN ALIBI

Amy King’s poems think in association, evoking a world familiar but entirely unexpectable. Next to us all this turns and spins: under the veil of hum and drum is the paradise of possibility. This is a poetry of hope for a world shrouded by nearly and almost. -- Charles Bernstein I like the way the...

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Amy's Latest Blogs

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Oct.16.2012 - 12:06 pm

POET ON PAINTING?

POET ON PAINTING?AMY KINGPosted on October 16th, 2012 Authors on Artists: Amy King on Leonor Fini, Leonora Carrington, and Frida KahloPaint Is the Abyss’ Law, Living...

Mar.04.2012 - 5:30 pm

“What is safe?”

Words and Music by Metta Sáma EXCERPTS: “King’s book is not quiet; hers is an aesthetics of sound fractured, fragmented, compounded, mixed, remixed, sampled, jointed,...

Mar.04.2012 - 3:12 pm

A Man Reads Men by the Lips of Women

Words and Music by John Pluecker EXCERPTS: “Amy King is doing God’s work. Of course, I don’t mean God in a traditional Christian way; I mean God in the way that King...

Mar.04.2012 - 2:25 pm

What She Says: The All Women Writers Issue

SENTENTIA 4 What She Says: The All Women Writers Issue 164 pages edited by Paula Bomer, Amy King (poetry) and Jen Michalski (fiction) $10 (+$2 shipping) Including...

Comments from Amy

Dec.07.2008 - 11:15 am

In response to: Poems Online - Amy King

It's fun and frustrating,

It's fun and frustrating, all in one ball!

Sep.27.2008 - 11:24 am

In response to: Poetry Is To Money As Ice Cream Is To Mud

Welcome

Thank you, Cheryl -- and likewise! Amy

Sep.27.2008 - 11:23 am

In response to: Poetry Is To Money As Ice Cream Is To Mud

Great Resource

Hi Max, I'm so glad you found my little rant useful! I hope others will also be inspired to beyond the easy pleas of...

Writing

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Column: Banned Books Month: Amy King on Alice Walker’s The Color Purple

Essay: WILL THE REAL WALT WHITMAN PROBLEM PLEASE STAND UP? TOUCHING PERFECT BODIES WITH HIS MIND

Poem: Never Is Less

Audio & Video

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Video: Amy King Reads @ Pete's Candy Store -- Part 2

Video: Amy King Reads @ Pete's Candy Store -- Part 1

Video: Race and Poetry [Panel] -- Part 7

"Amy King is a true bard." — Tomaž Šalamun”

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About Amy

I Want to Make You Safe has just been released by Litmus Press, 2011. Amy King is also the author of Slaves to do These Things, I’m the Man Who Loves You and Antidotes for an Alibi, all from Blazevox Books, as well as The People Instruments (Pavement Saw...

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