Books by Rebecca Wolff
Open City #23: Prose by Poets
by Jim Harrison, Nick Flynn, Jill Bialosky, Wayne Koestenbaum, Glyn Maxwell, Deborah Garrison, Open City Magazine, Rebecca Wolff
Open City continues to present new writing with a daring edge and a youthful glow, appealing to readers who want to know what’s next in contemporary literature. This special issue features fiction, essays, and artworkall by poets. Each piece of prose will be accompanied by a selection of the writer’s poems. Contributors include: Deborah Garrison, Nick Tosches, Honor Moore, Rodney Jack, David Lehman, Jim Harrison, Thurston Moore, David Berman, and Catherine Bowman, Alfred Star Hamilton, and Jerome Badanes.
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A Best of Fence, The First Nine Years, Volume I (Poetry & Nonfiction)
A historical document so significant it requires two volumes. FENCE evades tedium with this anthology, co-edited by editors past and present. In addition to presenting a compendium of poetry, criticism, and creative nonfiction, this volume includes editors’ reflective essays, and serves as an indispensable record of the inception & continuation of the most influential literary journal of its time.?
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One Morning―
"[Wolff's poems] 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."—Bookforum
Poet, novelist, and Fence Books founder Rebecca Wolff's internal monologue made external in poetry is uncanny. Her musical and darkly funny fourth collection, One Morning—, spans language, culture, art history, love, passion, grief, consumerism, environmental devastation, and the ekphrastic experience of pop and high culture. She experiments with torque, energy, narrative—two steps ahead of herself with the reader on her heels.
From "Today Is a Good Day to Fly (Life Begins at)":
I'm really digging this blue sky
after so much rain
with my regular menstrual
cycle
my Def Jam
progesterone cream
the blow-in (in my pocket)
(ripped out)
from in-flight music magazine
"touching cloth"
like the Romantics do.
Insert jitney.
Rebecca Wolff is the author of four collections of poetry, one novel, and numerous pieces of occasional prose. Her first book, Manderley, was selected for the National Poetry Series by Robert Pinsky. Her second, Figment, was selected for the Barnard Women Poets Prize by Claudia Rankine and Eavan Boland. Her third, The King, was published by W. W. Norton in 2009. Her novel The Beginners was published by Riverhead in 2011. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and the Millay Colony for the Arts. In 1998, Wolff founded the influential literary journal Fence; in 2001 she founded Fence Books and launched The Constant Critic website. Wolff lives in Hudson, New York, and is currently a fellow at the New York State Writers Institute at the University at Albany.
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The King: Poems
"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 surfaced
a whole matrix
or rubric
magical thinking
other kinds of thinking
but in layers, you understand,
with supremacy
a honeycomb.
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