"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 Selfa mother, lover, wife, thinkerin 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 Otherher 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.