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The King Rebecca Wolff

The King By Rebecca Wolff

The King by Rebecca Wolff


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Summary

Wolff keeps company with Sylvia Plath, Sharon Olds, and Beth Ann Fennelly.-Publishers Weekly, starred review

The King Summary

The King: Poems by Rebecca Wolff

A bold, lyrical invention by an award-winning poet whose gift for the gorgeous won praise from Robert Pinsky. The King is a groundbreaking collection following a Self-a mother, lover, wife, thinker-in her fractured approach to the absolutes of pregnancy, postpartum depression, childrearing, belief, love, and epistemology. Here is a potent exploration of one woman's coming together with the Other-her hard-won attachment to the King.

from Deeply Psychological

And then I surfaced
a whole matrix
or rubric
magical thinking
other kinds of thinking
but in layers, you understand,
with supremacy
a honeycomb.

The King Reviews

Rebecca Wolff's poems about motherhood in The King are ironic and dark, slippery and exploratory, loving but not blindingly so... [They] are stylistic and tonal shapeshifters. Hip, contemplative, and dark and resistant to the hunky-dory, the New Agey, and the prescriptive, they're unnerving, funny, and occasionally subversive.

About Rebecca Wolff

Rebecca Wolff is the editor of Fence and the author of Manderley, Figment and Continuum. She lives in Athens, New York, with her family and is a Fellow of the New York State Writers Institute.

Additional information

NLS9780393338904
9780393338904
0393338908
The King: Poems by Rebecca Wolff
New
Paperback
WW Norton & Co
2011-01-28
128
N/A
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