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Mary Ann Larkin staple-bound. 40 pp. $9.00 
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Better than any poet I know, Larkin captures the intertwining of sensuality and spirituality, of physical and spiritual longing, in poems that wed narrative to lyric and are always alive and surprising. These poems are strong and unembarrassed. Above all they are poems of love (of the body, the physical world, of friends, the past, the incomprehensible stars). –Jean Nordhaus author, INNOCENCE Mary Ann Larkin is a poet, teacher, and writer—author of four chapbooks of poetry: The Coil of the Skin, White Clapboard, The DNA of the Heart (with her husband Patric Pepper), and A Shimmering That Goes with Us . Her poetry has appeared in scores of magazines and anthologies, including America in Poetry and Ireland in Poetry, the art and poetry series published by Harry N. Abrams. IN NEW YORK AND DUBLIN, IN LONDON AND SOPHIA, THE GIRLS ARE SHAVING THEIR HEADS Lost anchorites with no refuge, they too mortify their flesh– nose and nipple pierced, ear and bellybutton. Eyes glitter in fervid faces. Feet go sandaled or bare. Only black adorns them. No earthly food delights them. Bodies worn with longing, they speak with smiles and silence. Parched in the curve and whorl of their supplicant flesh–pink and ivory, mauve and bronze–they wait for love, as their sisters before them yearned for the god to strike, to transform their bleeding corruptible bodies to planes of pure light. |