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  <title><![CDATA[The King]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A bold, lyrical invention by an  award-winning poet whose &#8220;gift for the gorgeous&#8221; won praise from Robert Pinsky.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;em&gt;The King&lt;/em&gt; is a groundbreaking collection  following a Self&#8212;a mother, lover, wife,  thinker&#8212;in her fractured approach to the  absolutes of pregnancy, postpartum depression,  childrearing, belief, love, and epistemology.  Here is a potent exploration of one woman&#8217;s  coming together with the Other&#8212;her hard-won  attachment to &#8220;the King.&#8221;&lt;p /&gt;  &lt;p /&gt;  &lt;em&gt;from  &#8220;Deeply Psychological&#8221;&lt;p /&gt;  &lt;p  /&gt;  &lt;/em&gt;&lt;dir&gt;&lt;em&gt;And then I surfaced&lt;p /&gt;  a  whole matrix&lt;p /&gt;  or rubric&lt;p /&gt;  &lt;p  /&gt;  magical thinking&lt;p /&gt;  other kinds of  thinking&lt;p /&gt;  &lt;p /&gt;  but in layers, you  understand,&lt;p /&gt;  &lt;p /&gt;  with supremacy&lt;p /&gt;  a  honeycomb.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/dir&gt;&lt;p /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Rebecca Wolff]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this entire collection in one evening, thinking, &quot;I'll just read one more&quot; and then, as if it were a bag of chips, unable to put the book down. And when I was finished, I turned back to the beginning and started reading  again. The poems are terrific -- sharp, funny, deeply felt but...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63680349">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book of poems I did a bit better with.  Some of them are really raw and honest and I liked them quite a lot.  Some of it, still, I had no idea about.  But some of it.  Was super.]]></body>
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