Figment

Figment

by Rebecca Wolff
Figment

Figment

by Rebecca Wolff

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Overview

Winner of the 2003 Barnard Women Poets Prize, Figment has a vivacity and edge which gives it immediate presence" (Eavan Boland).

What is a poem?  Figment suggests myriad possible answers: a post-confession, a remnant lyric, an unerringly wistful invention. Rebecca Wolff makes use of every tool at her disposal to create charming, discomfiting poems, spiked with "shrewd summings-up" and "nervy, controlled lyric bursts"  (Maureen N. McLane, Chicago Tribune).

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393327618
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 12/17/2005
Pages: 128
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Rebecca Wolff is the editor of Fence and the author of Manderley, Figment and Continuum. She lives in Athens, New York, with her family and is a Fellow of the New York State Writers Institute.

Table of Contents

That Impulse
Life of Sorts19
A good idea, but not well executed20
Autobiographia Copularia22
Eminent Victorians23
Obsolete Coin25
A Longer Leash27
4:30 Lakeshore Limited Was in the Past29
I walk the property line32
Public Space: Suite35
The Sustained Project
1.Beastly Matronly43
2.Changing its character45
3.Inquire Within46
4.Stoma47
5.You take me to lunch48
6.Howler50
Never-entered
Criminal Justice System53
Mama didn't raise no fools54
Don't look in the basket56
En Plein Air57
Dana Plato Fatality58
Neurological59
Farm Stand60
House Party
1.Le Weekend65
2.The Big Snow66
3.Pastoral Epithalamion68
4.Bob's Your Buddha: Dine Out on This70
5.Everyone's Mobilized: A Ghost Story72
6.Sunday Morning; or, Instead of Services73
7.Bell Ringer for Weather75
As if overheard
After Balthus79
Sybil80
Roman Polanski83
Good enough for folk music86
Broken Sound Parkway87
The interrogative91
The Wreck of the SS Supernatural93
Another brainless preadolescent says "My ass is for sale"95
Considerable Expense97
Sunshine100
Invidious Comparison102
As If by Magic, Context103
In Egypt the Traveler Falls into the Arms of a Despairing Stranger104
Lamb, Willow: An Arch Dolefulness Has Taken Me This Far105
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