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( 4 of 4 found this review helpful ) Posted: Mar 26 2004
For a long time recently, I felt as if I were sleep walking through life, with my soul outside my body (choosing perhaps to live in the poetry section of Amazon.com or somewhere equally exotic....) and then I picked up this book of poems. I laughed, cried and sighed and I nodded my head with each poem I read and felt my soul come back to me......The magic of words! Two of my favorites are "Finding Your Wife Was a Lesbian" (the last stanza is poetry at it's finest) and "The Clean House" (as a cat owner and wife of a "Mr. Clean", I wanted to frame this one....)It's always exciting to discover a new poet, especially one whose poems you feel as if you could've written yourself. Such are the poems of Sara King. I highly recommend this book to all poetry lovers, women especially...it's on my keeper shelf.
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( 3 of 3 found this review helpful ) Posted: Oct 18 2003
A poem from this book was TWICE featured on Writers Almanac and read by Garrison Keillor, Oct 17, 2003 and Oct 17, 2004. Check the archives link at lower left at www.writersalmanac.com to hear Keillor read the poem.
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( 3 of 3 found this review helpful ) Posted: Oct 16 2003
Sara King's style is evident in all of these poems. While there are obvious strong pieces, there are several that should not have been included in this collection.Any description that I could plot down with letters would not equal the range of emotion reached by Sara King's metaphors. Therefore, I will not try. I will urge you, however, to read the "Laundry" poem and you will agree with me. (I heard this poem via Garrison's Keillor's Writers Almanac program on NPR.)I will admit that I did not, indeed, purchase a copy of this book--I read the complete text via the Publisher's Web site, but believe me: this is worth buying. I intend to order my copy this week.Allan St. JamesBowling Green, KYAuthor of Banner
