These Four Walls: Selected Poems
By Bernadette Wolff

   Marianne Moore once defined good poetry as "an imaginary garden with a real toad in it." Bernadette Wolff's poems have precisely that fluid charm wedded to the steel-hard edge of actual life, the unmistakable feel of it eaten whole and chewed up, bones and all - with all its leaps of faith, its triumphs, its disappointments, and its anguishes. In the process she has achieved a voice that cannot be fooled and will not be tempted to betray itself. Read these deeply affecting poems once or a hundred times, and you will understand how.

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