Manderley
eBook - ePub

Manderley

POEMS

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Manderley

POEMS

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

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Occasional Poem
  7. The Royal Begonia
  8. Tunnel Visionary
  9. Broads Abroad: Elizabeth Bishop & Jane Bowles
  10. Couched
  11. He wrapped himself in my warmest …
  12. Spending the Day on a Sleeping Porch
  13. I liked it so much he gave it to me as a present
  14. Mom gets laid
  15. Flame On
  16. Don’t know what to call him but he’s mighty lak a rose
  17. Motion Picture Adaptation
  18. Conquering Ambivalence
  19. Interminable Silence
  20. Letters, Young and Old Poets
  21. Spring forward, fall back
  22. The Lowest Common Denominator
  23. Firefly
  24. The world is my cloister
  25. Constant in Opal
  26. Ashtabula County
  27. Portrait
  28. A Syllogism
  29. Out of Town
  30. Day Laborers
  31. Press Play
  32. The Devil in Massachusetts
  33. Distinguished Reunion
  34. Mister Pitiful: A Literary Biography
  35. Rowena swallows yr. nocturnal spooge
  36. Chinatown, Oh
  37. The Proverbial Handshake: The Sharon Olds Poem
  38. Everything Demystified
  39. The Sun in Winter
  40. It all ends in resignation