title: Free Stallion: Poems
author:  Amber Tamblyn 
description: Grade 10 UpTamblyn is an emerging writer with passion and commitment. <i>Free Stallion</i> is a compilation of poetry that amounts to a portrait of the artist as a teenager, from the very early years through post adolescence. Many of the selections are appropriately self-absorbed but move beyond journalistic catharsis to real insight and stunning language for one so young. In Dig, Tamblyn wants to distance herself with language that examines and classifies: Hollywood's got a face./Trophy wives with stitched-up sideburns/look like 3rd degree burn victims. Gutsy, she speaks frankly of sexuality. In Vibration she explores the limits of enjambment: Drop your weapons/pick up my hip attachment./Screw it,/on./I'm suing for a-sexual harassment. In Moths she writes with the same desire to push language a little further off-kilter: I am a derelict without furniture or life signs,/painting your posture from distance that/can fit inside the palm of your land. And she has economical humor: I want to sneak out/in the night,/do stupid things with nature/in the dark,/regret them/in the light. Public libraries will want this book for the permission the writing gives to use language in the expression of strong emotion, and as a unique record of one artist's early promise of crafting an art for life or vice versa.<i>Teresa Pfeifer, Alfred Zanetti Montessori Magnet School, Springfield, MA</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  ## My Lady, My Lord
  
  
  
  
  
  **The Bluestocking**
  
  
  
  
  
  Lady Corinna Mowbray has three passions: excellent books, intelligent
  conversation, and disdaining the libertine Earl of Chance.
  
  
  
  
  
  **The Rake**
  
  
  
  
  
  Lord Ian Chance has three pleasures: beautiful women, fast horses, and
  tormenting high-and-mighty Corinna Mowbray.
  
  
  
  
  
  Neighbors for years, they’ve been at each other’s throats since they can
  remember. But when a twist of fate forces them to trade lives, how long will
  it be before they discover they cannot live without each other?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Dedication
  
  
  
  
  
  To my husband, my son & my Idaho.
  
  
  
  
  
  Thank you, beloveds. I am grateful for you beyond words.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ### Cupid’s Victim
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “I think if desire were attacking me I’d feel it.
  
  
  
  
  
  Surely he’s crept in and skillfully hurt me with secret art.
  
  
  
  
  
  That’s it: a slender arrow sticks fast in my heart,
  
  
  
  
  
  And cruel Love lives there, in my conquer