Reviews, videos, and other press about The Beginners
Reviews, videos, and other press about The King
"Rebecca Wolff's poems about motherhood in The King are ironic and dark, slippery and exploratory, loving but not blindingly so. . . . [They] 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)
"Taking simultaneous shots at militancy and cynicism is part of this book's main dynamic; in a space where 'It all happens so fast--/ ovulation, creation, cremation,' a variety of poses, or figments, may seem all that is left. Wolff's poems manage to make embracing them seem like a genuine possibility." (Publishers Weekly)
"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." (The New York Review)