"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
Product Information: Poetry
· Paperback: 87 pages
· Binding: Perfect-Bound Binding
· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] (February 2007)
· Size: 7" x 10"
· ISBN:1-934289-33-7
· Nice Price: $16.00
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