Museum of Accidents - Softcover

Zucker, Rachel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933517425 ISBN 13: 9781933517421

Publisher: Wave Books, 2009

Synopsis

"Rachel Zucker may be Generation X's likeliest heir to the confessional legacy of Sylvia Plath, Louise Glück, and Sharon Olds."—The Believer

Rending the terrorizing forces of modern existence from abstraction and placing them directly in our laps, Museum of Accidents is a brutally honest epic of domestic proportions.

Rachel Zucker is the author of three collections of poetry and co-editor of Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections. A graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop, she currently lives in New York City with her husband and three sons, where she is a certified labor doula.

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About the Author:

Rachel Zucker is the author of three collections of poetry and co-editor of Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections. A graduate of Yale and the Iowa Writer's Workshop, Zucker has taught at several institutions, including NYU and Yale. She currently lives in NYC with her husband and three sons, and is a certified labor doula.

From Publishers Weekly:

Starred Review. This forth collection of poems by Zucker (The Bad Wife Handbook) furthers her project to portray the dark underside of marriage and parenthood in 16 mostly long poems that are as formally wild as they are self-conscious and emotionally searing. Zucker's subject is not an unhappy marriage, but an average one, which, she wants to make clear, is full of as much pain, fear, lust and hopelessness as the fabled unions of some of her confessional forebears. There is happiness, too, but that's not the province of this book, in which romance can be reduced to a formula (Thursday: we have sex (husband and I) lights on), and a poem recounts how an audience member at a poetry reading says, after hearing the author read about her young son, Someday, he'll grow up and read that and you'll pay. In another, a fellow poet advises the next time you feel yourself going dark/ in a poem, just don't, and see what happens, yielding one of the oddest happy poems around. Zucker's willingness to put her own pain on display may frighten or even disgust some readers, but most will be grateful to find themselves less alone in their own everyday suffering. This is a book for all who seek what Zucker calls the antidote for despair, however elusive it may be. (Oct.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Wave Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1933517425
• ISBN 13: 9781933517421
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 82