[close] Praise for MY BODY: "Over the decades of writing, Joan Larkin has proved her mastery, whether the poem is mythic, elegaic, or biographical. Her honesty is overwhelming....She is a poet of compassion and pity."--Gerald Stern "Deft, probling language surges in these poems, to the music of free verse, metric invention, high rhetoric, & demonic wit."--Marie Ponsot "Death from AIDS, family deaths, a suicide--dark subjects deftly and honorably portrayed."--Maxine Kumin [close]