My Body: New and Selected Poems

by Joan Larkin

Overview

Poetry. "Over the decades of writing, Joan Larkin has proved her mastery, whether the poem is mythic, elegiac, or biographical. Her honesty is overwhelming, but it is coupled with poetic cunning, gorgeous language and a rhythm and tone so precise and appropriate that it is--as in the great poets--transparent. There are no tricks and no evasive moves, nothing that in ten years she will be ashamed of or confused by. She is a poet of compassion and pity. Where it is appropriate, she is merciless, especially to herself. I love reading her poems; I love reading them over and over. I salute her"--Gerald Stern.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781931236744
Publisher:	Hanging Loose Press
Publication date:	05/01/2007
Pages:	149
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Joan Larkin's previous volumes of poetry include Cold River, which received a Lambda Literary Award for Poetry. In her fourth decade of teaching writing, she is a member of the core faculty of the MFA Program in Poetry at New England College.

What People are Saying About This

"Joan Larkin knows how to write a crown of sonnets so vividly revelatory that it gave this reader goosebumps. Death from AIDS, family deaths, a suicide-dark subjects deftly and honorably portrayed."--(Maxine Kumin)

Editorial Reviews

This poetry is without pitty, in which depair leads not to degradation but to a kind of grace.
—David L. Ulin

Los Angeles Times