Imperfect Fit Selected Poems Author:Martha King Martha King’s obsessions with identity, family history, the lives of artists, and the capacity for distant war to haunt and maim have been vividly presented in prose forms in her recently short stories and memoirs. Now, in a collection of poetry written over the past 26 years, these same themes play out in poems—that blend outrage and sly wit, ... more »pain and humor. Ms. King was among the last students attending famed Black Mountain College before it was closed in 1956. She married the painter/poet Basil King in 1958—and he contributed the cover art, which like her poems, embraces imperfection.« less