Full Description
"Zucker is a poet of bottom-scraping, blood-chilling existential anxiety, one among many, and a poet of New York City, one among many, and a poet of American Jewish inheritance, one among many, and one of the funniest, too."--Boston Review Rachel Zucker returns to themes of motherhood, marriage, and the life of an artist in this double collection of poems. Fables, written in prose form, shows the reader different settings (mountains, ocean, Paris) of Zucker's travels and meditations on place. The Pedestrians brings us back to her native New York and the daily frustrations of a woman torn by obligations. That Great Diaspora I'll never leave New York & when I do I too will be unbodied--what? you imagine I might transmogrify? I'm from nowhere which means here & so wade out into the briny dream of elsewheres like a released dybbyk but can't stand the soulessness now everyone who ever made sense to me has died & everyone I love grows from my body like limbs on a rootless tree Rachel Zucker is the author of Museum of Accidents, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
She is also the author of The Bad Wife, The Last Clear Narrative, Eating in the Underworld, and Annunciation.
Contents
FABLES
the other city
ocean
apartment
mountains
the lark and her young ones
THE PEDESTRIANS
Today My Son Told Me
Real Poem
Egg Dream
Mindful
Real Poem (Infanticide)
Day Care Dream
Plant Dream
Real Poem (Happiness)
Fridays
Real Poem (No Elegy)
Public School Dream
[nature]
Please Alice Notley Tell me How to Be Old
Baby Dream
Real Poem (Painting)
Two Kinds of Suffering
Real Poem (Post Confessional)
Baby Hospital Dream
Pedestrian
[once you pass this point you must continue to exit]
I Do Not Like Your Job
Real Poem ("Gay Men Don't Snore")
Brooklyn Dream
Wish You Were Here You Are
Real Poem (Appellation)
Baby Dream
[Usage]
That Great Diaspora
Real Poem (Personal Statement)
Paris Dream
[taking away taking away everything]
Knock Knock. Who's There? / Someone. Someone who?
Professor Dream
Real Poem (Post Confessional 2)
Just Off the Road Near Lynchburg, Virginia
Hair Dream
Real Poem (Workshop)
I'm Nobody You Are Too
Public School Dream
The Meanest Thing I Ever Said
Resort Dream
an airplane stitches
