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THE PEDESTRIANS
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| By: |
Rachel Zucker |
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Paperback |
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£12.99 |
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£10.72 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1933517891 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781933517896 |
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| Publisher: |
WAVE BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
1 April, 2014 |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Description: |
A tense and personal account of a life as a woman, wife, and mother, in and out of New York. |
| Synopsis: |
"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 ReviewRachel 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 DiasporaI'll never leave New York & when I doI too will be unbodied? what? youimagine I might transmogrify? I'm fromnowhere which means here & so wade outinto the briny dream of elsewheres likea released dybbyk but can't standthe soulessness now everyone who evermade sense to me has died & everyone I lovegrows from my body like limbs on a rootless treeRachel 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. |
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US |
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Wave Books |
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