Slight Return

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By Rebecca Wolff

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Slight Return by Rebecca Wolff is a poignant collection of poems delving into American consumer culture, exploring themes of erotic desire, spiritual fear of missing out, gentrification, and branding. Wolff navigates these paradoxes with wit and incisiveness, confronting the hubris and distortions of the soul through language itself. The journey within these poems is labyrinthine and infinite, resisting easy resolution and inviting readers into a complex, elusive reflection on contemporary life.
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This collection will appeal to readers interested in contemporary poetry that challenges conventional views, especially those fascinated by cultural critique and explorations of the soul’s complexities through innovative language.

"A collection of poetry by Rebecca Wolff"--

In her new collection, renowned publisher and poet Rebecca Wolff voyages in the myopia of American consumer consciousnessóerotic regard, spiritual FOMO, gentrification, brandingówithout destination.

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In her new collection, renowned publisher and poet Rebecca Wolff voyages in the myopia of American consumer consciousness—erotic regard, spiritual FOMO, gentrification, branding—without destination.

Labyrinthine in their paradoxical musings and incisive in their witty recriminations, these poems grapple with the hubris and dysmorphia of the soul. Wolff is a poet who is unafraid to be a querent, not only of sages ("I only hang out with people / who are psychic / anything else is a / waste of precious / continuity") but of language itself ("How else is one to know how to proceed / How is one to make a motion against- / electric word life"). In Slight Return, the journey is infinite and elusive—aspiring in the best way toward a point of diminishing returns and withholding any promise of a comfortable landing.

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Bookforum praises Wolff's poems as "stylistic and tonal shapeshifters" that are "unnerving, funny, and occasionally subversive." The Chicago Tribune highlights her "nervy, controlled lyric bursts" and a "gift for shrewd summings-up." According to Publishers Weekly, Wolff's work manages to make embracing life's fleeting poses and fragments a genuine possibility, even as everything moves rapidly.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781950268658

Publisher: Wave Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 December 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Wave Books

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 209.0mm

Height: 152.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 116

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Poetry Rebecca Wolff

About the Author

Rebecca Wolffwas publishedby Wave Books in 2015.Slight Return; in 2001 she founded Fence Books and launched The Constant Critic website. Wolff lives in Hudson, New York, where she has served on the City Council and works in community development, with an emphasis on affordable housing and green trades training.

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