Not Thinking Alike
“It is not best that we all should think alike, it is differences of opinion that make horse races.”
–Mark Twain
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A few new poems written by my non-pseudonym in Jacket Magazine:
* The Arm of Eden
* Where Bullfinches Go to Defy
* Two if by Land, I Do
* A Martyrdom Should Behave Us All
This is an early appearance as Jacket #35 is still under construction though you’ll find a little action there already.
Please enjoy!
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4 Responses to “Not Thinking Alike”
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Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA) Award. Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She co-edited with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She also co-edits the anthology series, Bettering American Poetry, and is a professor of creative writing at SUNY Nassau Community College.
AMY KING 
January 31st, 2008 at 5:55 pm eLooks like Mark Twain has anxiety…
…but wait, that’s correct.
Love those, esp. the last two.
The face is bold, looking in and out.
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:05 am eYay! I’m glad you liked them, Jim! It’s funny – Ana also said she liked the last two best too.
February 4th, 2008 at 8:12 am eAll your poems are amazing, but “Two if by Land, I Do” has me reading and rereading and wondering. It’s probably no stretch to say it is an important poem, where you’ve gotten at the cosmic through the personal, all by one little twist – changing “do you want” to “do you believe.”It is really astounding to me how nuanced your political views are, how they comprehend so many issues most of us would abstract from the realm of politics.I sound nuts, don’t I.
February 4th, 2008 at 9:08 pm eheh…not at all, Ashok. There are political, personal, and
philosophical nuances swimming in that ocean. Your
language and cultural tuning is astute.