My Body: New and Selected Poems

Joan Larkin

ISBN 10: 1931236747 / ISBN 13: 9781931236744

Published by Hanging Loose Press, 2007

About this Item

Clean, bright, unmarked copy. Light wear to cover corners. Interior fine. Signed by author on title page.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: My Body: New and Selected Poems
• Publisher: Hanging Loose Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1931236747
• ISBN 13: 9781931236744
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

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.

Review

"Joan Larkin's high-wire poetic acts unite both electric tension and steadfast balance."

"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."

"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."