Manderley : poems / by Rebecca Wolff.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Occasional poem -- The royal begonia -- Tunnel visionary -- Broads abroad: Elizabeth Bishop and Jane Bowles -- Couched -- He wrapped himself in my warmest ... -- Spending the day on a sleeping porch -- I liked it so much he gave it to me as a present -- Mom gets laid -- Flame on -- Don't know what to call him but he's mighty lak a rose -- Motion picture adaptation -- Conquering ambivalence -- Interminable silence -- Letters, young and old poets -- Spring forward, fall back -- The lowest common denominator -- Firefly -- The world is my cloister -- Constant in opal -- Ashtabula County -- Portrait -- A syllogism -- Out of town -- Day laborers -- Press play -- The devil in Massachusetts -- Distinguished reunion -- Mister pitiful: a literary biography -- Rowena swallows yr. nocturnal spooge -- Chinatown, oh -- The proverbial handshake: the Sharon Olds poem -- Everything demystified -- The sun in winter -- It all ends in resignation.

Selected by Robert Pinsky as one of five volumes published in 2001 in the National Poetry Series_x000B__x000B__x000B__x000B_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 /

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