Antidotes for an Alibi by Amy King

Antidotes for an Alibi Reviews

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  Amy

  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 poems in Antidotes for an Alibi seem to turn on their axes. Their wit is gone before you know it, but the metaphysical effect transports
  you a considerable distance, where you find yourself happy to be pleasantly addled. -- Ron Padgett
  
  
  Amy King's poems leap from small, fragile moments into grand gesture and godly vision. Her snapshots of downtown folklore connect on the most basic, truthful level. "If I were you, I would wait for me," King writes. I advise you to do what she says.
  --Daniel Nester
  
  
  At play in the displaced language of "elsewhere," the poems in Amy King's first book, Antidotes for an Alibi, offer a new kind of truth-telling: "I'm
  learning to give disappearance an honesty," she writes. "A patchwork seamstress" with "light's
  residue on my tongue," she "sing(s) along with the exacting world and its inner tin-heart difference." These poems are remarkable for their ironic wit, their bemused (and amusing) self-awareness, their fresh look at how we ab/use words, and are used by them. --L.S. Asekoff
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  Barry

  My review of the book can be read at
  http://www.octopusmagazine.com/issue07/html/review_index.htm#k.
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  Dee Washington

  The little Gore Lost From her Sister Yes My found itch And they have so much fun They had so much fun of the park and To go home Forgot dark Dark outside Dee end
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  kia

  mañ nakhñdamesh azxizam