Person Detail: Joan Larkin

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Full Name: Joan Larkin | ||
Biography: Joan Larkin's most recent book, My Body: New and Selected Poems (Hanging Loose Press) received the Publishing Triangle's 2008 Audre Lorde Award. Her previous books include Housework, A Long Sound, Sor Juana's Love Poems (translated with Jaime Manrique), and Cold River, winner of a Lambda Award. Larkin lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches in the Drew University low-residency M.F.A. Program in Poetry and Poetry in Translation. David Ulin of the Los Angeles Times has called Larkin's voice "unsentimental, ruthless and clear-eyed.. This is poetry without pity, in which despair leads not to degradation but to a kind of grace." |
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Category: | N.Y.S. | |
Travel Range: | Anywhere, with sufficient notice. | |
Transportation: | I have no car but do drive; can use any mode of public or rented transportation. | |
Dates Available: | All seasons except July 21-August 21, 2010. | |
Fees: | Negotiable. Rock-bottom minimum $100 (plus travel, if outside NYC, and plus lodging if distance requires overnight stay). | |
Contact Information: |
Email: larkin7@earthlink.net Website (click here) |
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Author's Timeline: | ||
2010 |
Kings County Joan Larkin lives in Brooklyn, New York. |
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2007 |
(Unknown) County My Body: New And Selected Poems (Pub: Hanging Loose Press. ISBN: 9781931236744) Collection of poetry. Received the Publishing Triangle's 2008 Audre Lorde Award. |
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2003 |
(Unknown) County Sor Juana's Love Poems (Pub: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN: 0299187047) Poetry by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; translated by Joan Larkin and Jaime Manrique. |
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1997 |
(Unknown) County Cold River (Pub: Painted Leaf Press. ISBN: 0965155854) Collection of poetry, winner of a Lambda Award. |
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1986 |
(Unknown) County A Long Sound (Pub: Granite Press. ISBN: 0961488611) Collection of poetry. |
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1975 |
(Unknown) County Housework (Pub: Out & Out Books. ISBN: 091831402X) Collection of poetry. |
