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The King

Poems

Rebecca Wolff author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:WW Norton & Co

Published:28th Jan '11

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The King cover

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.

"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."

ISBN: 9780393338904

Dimensions: 208mm x 140mm x 10mm

Weight: 168g

128 pages