The King: Poems

by Rebecca Wolff

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

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 surfaceda whole matrixor rubricmagical thinkingother kinds of thinkingbut in layers, you understand,with supremacya honeycomb.

Genres: Poetry, 21st Century

116 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 29, 2009

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Caroline · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this entire collection in one evening, thinking, "I'll just read one more" and then, as if it were a bag of chips, unable to put the book down. And when I was finished, I turned back to the beginning and started reading again. The poems are terrific -- sharp, funny, deeply felt but not at all sentimental.

[Michelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book of poems I did a bit better with. Some of them are really raw and honest and I liked them quite a lot. Some of it, still, I had no idea about. But some of it. Was super.

[Krista · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sometimes hard to engage, but very interesting and honest.