Manderley: Poems - Brossura

Wolff, Rebecca

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0252070054 ISBN 13: 9780252070051

Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 2001

Riassunto

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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L'autore:

Rebecca Wolff's second collection, Figment, won the Barnard Women Poets Prize and was published by W. W. Norton in 2004. Her third book of poems, The King, will appear in 2009 from Norton. Wolff is the editor of Fence and Fence Books, and lives in Athens, New York, with her family. She is a fellow of the New York State Writers Institute.
 

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Book by Wolff Rebecca

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• Editore: Univ of Illinois Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0252070054
• ISBN 13: 9780252070051
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 63