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Amber Showalter

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Born to be a rock star, but also born completely tone deaf, Amber Showalter learned early on to use written word as a weapon, as an epitaph, as her own spoken siren song.

A self-proclaimed Type-A punk, world traveler and ex-model, Amber now makes a living as a broken heart nurse in Virginia. She has been writing poetry since she was fifteen. "The Carrion of Songs" is her first collection.
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Average rating: 4.84 · 38 ratings · 19 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Death Will Be Our Curfew: Poems by Amber Showalter (Goodreads Author), Viktoriya Samoylov (Illustrator) 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Esteem Punk: Illustrations by Amy Siever by Amber Showalter (Goodreads Author), Amy Siever (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Carrion of Songs by Amber Showalter (Goodreads Author), Amber Showalter (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Carrion of Songs: Illustrations by Amy Siever by Amber Showalter (Goodreads Author), Amy Siever (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Esteem Punk it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paperback Criminal by Amber Showalter (Goodreads Author), Viktoriya Samoylov (illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paperback Criminal by Amber Showalter (Goodreads Author), Viktoriya Samoylov (illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I read mostly non-fiction. Memoirs, biographies, true crime, graphic novels of historical events and of course, poetry. I write (mostly) non-fiction in my own writings (yeah yeah, names and identifying characteristics changed to protect the innocent, etc, etc). I feel that anybody’s life could make a good book, if written properly. I love knowing that crazy and amazing things could actually happen Read more of this blog post »

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Amber Showalter rated a book it was amazing Love, Life, Death and Therapy by Elle Ritchie	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The thoughts and emotions Ritchie writes amount are infinite and immortal. Why, you ask? Because you’ve felt them before. They live inside you. The fact that Ritchie was able to put them in paper in a way you can recognize makes “Love, Life, Death an ...more
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Amber Showalter rated a book it was amazing Sipping Red: Poems by William Hazel	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This collection is beautiful. Prose laced with haiku to conjure small snippets of life. It takes such eloquence to offer up a scene with so few words, but Hazel does just that. By the fifth syllable, you’re there, in the setting where the author is, ...more
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There are poets you learn about in school. The influential ones from days of yore—Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen of course. They are known and remembered because their words know no timeframe. Applicable even now, their names have gone do ...more
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Amber Showalter rated a book it was amazing dead bird: poems of death in varying stages by Joseph Pinto	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Dead Bird is the latest poetry collection from Joseph Pinto, The Barfly Poet. Settle in, friends. I read this collection in one setting because I couldn’t put it down. I actually tried to put it down to jot a few notes, but I MISSED it, and came back ...more
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