false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183410424m/1414425.jpg 1414425 1 <B>Winner of the 2003 Barnard Women Poets Prize, <I>Figment</I> "has a vivacity and edge which gives it immediate presence" (Eavan Boland).</B><BR><BR>What is a poem? <I>Figment</I> 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, <I>Chicago Tribune</I>). 1404769 12 12 2005 Figment: Poems total:8|5:2|4:2|3:1|2:2|1:1| 8 26 19 3 5 0 false false Fri Dec 05 22:02:19 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 22:03:12 -0800 2008 2 0 false false Thu Jul 05 09:07:48 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 12 07:35:50 -0700 2007
I don't want to like these poems because I'm supposed to like them and I so badly want her to like my poems and put me in Fence one of these days but damn if I'm not liking this book. Feels familiar, but satisfying.

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