Legs Tipped with Small Claws
In Legs Tipped with Small Claws, Joan Larkin's first collection since My Body: New and Selected Poems, poems rich in the strangeness and struggle of the natural world have a way reordering the reader's attention. From the eye of the plankton to the shell of the Red-Eared Slider, creatures - both human and animal - glow with the radiance of hard-won attention. The twenty poems that make up this small collection are meant to be savored and lived with for a very long time.