Rebecca Wolff

Figment

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).

"An exciting read. . . . [Wolff 's] workmanship shows."—Academia