Rebecca Larkin

Rebecca Larkin is a poet and performer. She has previously run a reverse tourist office in Sofia, Bulgaria.

“I have tenuous connections to famous literary men and they haven’t helped me to become a famous poet” and “Get It Together”

Rebecca Larkin knows the powerful play of irony, nowhere more so than in her poem “Get It Together”—personification and metaphor as vehicles: “We’re all rooting for him/ TO GET IT TOGETHER,/He’s basically a tree that had its feet cut off/And its nose washed out by acid rain/and its leaves of personality waxed up so hard/they can’t photo-synthesize.”

Issue 10, February 2018

Rebecca Larkin

Rebecca Larkin is a poet and performer. She has previously run a reverse tourist office in Sofia, Bulgaria.

“I have tenuous connections to famous literary men and they haven’t helped me to become a famous poet” and “Get It Together”

Rebecca Larkin knows the powerful play of irony, nowhere more so than in her poem “Get It Together”—personification and metaphor as vehicles: “We’re all rooting for him/ TO GET IT TOGETHER,/He’s basically a tree that had its feet cut off/And its nose washed out by acid rain/and its leaves of personality waxed up so hard/they can’t photo-synthesize.”

Issue 10, February 2018

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