My Body New and Selected Poems Author:Joan Larkin "Joan Larkin's hire-wire poetic acts unite both electric tension and stead-fast balance. Deft, probing language surges in these poems, to the music of free verse, metric invention, high rhetoric, & demonic wit. She needs all these, to reach the full range of felt life she intends for us." -Marie Ponsot "Joan Larkin knows how to write... more » 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« less