I Stole a Rock: Poems of Love and Romance [Paperback]

Sara King (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 10, 2003

I Stole a Rock is an incredibly varied collection of love poems, full of longing and despair, bitter humor, and the joys of romantic communion. King has a remarkable ability to be reminded of love's joys and anguish when observing the natural world around her. A natural story teller, she takes us from the pigeons making love at the train station, to black olives on branches, and from flies on the wall, to a steaming cup of sake; everything brings us back to love and its promises and lies. ~The Editor.Here you will find pythons, spiders, mocking birds, solar flares, hibiscus, drunkards, margaritas, and angels. You will at once feel her pain, and laugh at the absurdities of relationships. Told in an easy narrative style, but with a strong sense of rhythm and sound, I Stole a Rock is a poetry collection you won't want to miss!

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About the Author

Sara King?s poetry has been published in Cover, the Underwood Review, the Connecticut River Review, and Feh!, among other publications.Sarah King lives in the Bay Area, California, with her husband and menagerie.

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (April 10, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595275850
• ISBN-13: 978-0595275854
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #661,298 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The hope and despair of love and romance, October 5, 2003

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This review is from: I Stole a Rock: Poems of Love and Romance (Paperback)

Sara King is so insightful and fearless in her examination of the full range of modern love. One can feel her heart race at the thought of full surrender to a love while at the same time her ear is cocked for the first sign of withdrawal. Her ability to balance on the knife blade between hope and despair is extraordinary. Her sense of romance is almost medieval in that there is always a yearning for a love that reality can never assuage or fulfill. Always some twisting and pulling away -- a recognition that this will end and not be remembered. Her imagery is fresh and immediate -- like an early spring with an unexpected frost. It is a particularly poignant book for those who are recovering from a disappointing love, because it also carries the ring of truth and therefore hope. Her work reminds me of ee cummings. Highly recommended.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Poems!, March 25, 2004

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This review is from: I Stole a Rock: Poems of Love and Romance (Paperback)

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.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars These poems hit their mark, September 26, 2003

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Elsa Dorfman (Cambridge, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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I think of these poems as sharp arrows that hit their target. Perhaps because so many are addressed to "you" I think of them as zooming through the air to some ONE, to some PLACE. They are zingers. Full of experience. King knows what's up and doesn't spare words....though she uses words sparingly. There's plenty of regret but no self-pity. Her voice is her own. The real thing. You will be glad you bought her book.