“Melora Wolff walks the boundary between meta-fiction and prose poetry in this brief, intense collection of fables, quasi-fables, dreams, and dream-songs. Like a porcelain bowl filled with river stones, The Parting presents a series of intimate, lapidary, water-worn worlds that will haunt the reader long after they have closed the book.” — Campbell McGrath, (Fever of Unknown Origin and The Seven Notebooks)

“The compressed, distilled, and riveting prose poems that comprise The Parting feel like the residue of “rapture and grief.” Image-driven, at times surrealistic, Melora Wolff’s poems weigh the longing for intimacy against the loneliness that often interposes. They dwell in the space between the self and its relation to others, asking—“How long will they stay poised between one night and another?”In the spirit of Marquez and Hass, Wolff’s poems are spun from dream-logic, unforgettable language, and in equal measure her powerful lyric imagination and heart.” — Shara McCallum, (Behold and No Ruined Stone)

“Melora Wolff’s prose poems perfect an atmosphere of dreamlike repose, her language–like the darkening surface of water.” — Henri Cole, (The Other Love)