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About this book
Selected by Robert Pinsky as one of five volumes published in 2001 in the National Poetry Series
In the Manderley of Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier's forbidding haven of mocking ghosts and secrets that refuse to remain buried, nothing is as it seems. So in this stunning debut collection by Rebecca Wolff, cities, partners, mothers, sisters, friends, and perfect strangers all disguise their true faces, while they who seek connection are "transported from one great gaping / hole in the fabric / of our knowledge to another."
No passage is too dark, no garden too tangled for the troubled dreamer of Manderley. Wolff turns a quicksilver gaze on a fluid world where both the real and the imaginary are transfigured. Tempering steely candor with a sophisticated delight in wordplay, these poems turn on a dime from the sensual to the eerie, the resigned to the hopeful, the comforting to the shocking. Each poem weaves together layers of dream, remembrance, and fantasy, distilling from romantic excess a gritty, spare language of truth-telling and surprise
In the Manderley of Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier's forbidding haven of mocking ghosts and secrets that refuse to remain buried, nothing is as it seems. So in this stunning debut collection by Rebecca Wolff, cities, partners, mothers, sisters, friends, and perfect strangers all disguise their true faces, while they who seek connection are "transported from one great gaping / hole in the fabric / of our knowledge to another."
No passage is too dark, no garden too tangled for the troubled dreamer of Manderley. Wolff turns a quicksilver gaze on a fluid world where both the real and the imaginary are transfigured. Tempering steely candor with a sophisticated delight in wordplay, these poems turn on a dime from the sensual to the eerie, the resigned to the hopeful, the comforting to the shocking. Each poem weaves together layers of dream, remembrance, and fantasy, distilling from romantic excess a gritty, spare language of truth-telling and surprise
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Publisher
University of Illinois PressYear
2010Print ISBN
9780252070051, 9780252026980eBook ISBN
9780252092930Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Occasional Poem
- The Royal Begonia
- Tunnel Visionary
- Broads Abroad: Elizabeth Bishop & Jane Bowles
- Couched
- He wrapped himself in my warmest …
- Spending the Day on a Sleeping Porch
- I liked it so much he gave it to me as a present
- Mom gets laid
- Flame On
- Don’t know what to call him but he’s mighty lak a rose
- Motion Picture Adaptation
- Conquering Ambivalence
- Interminable Silence
- Letters, Young and Old Poets
- Spring forward, fall back
- The Lowest Common Denominator
- Firefly
- The world is my cloister
- Constant in Opal
- Ashtabula County
- Portrait
- A Syllogism
- Out of Town
- Day Laborers
- Press Play
- The Devil in Massachusetts
- Distinguished Reunion
- Mister Pitiful: A Literary Biography
- Rowena swallows yr. nocturnal spooge
- Chinatown, Oh
- The Proverbial Handshake: The Sharon Olds Poem
- Everything Demystified
- The Sun in Winter
- It all ends in resignation
