The King
Poems
Will be published approx. on 28. January 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-0-393-33890-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
"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."More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
167 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-33890-4 (9780393338904)
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Person
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.