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A tense and personal account of a life as a woman, wife, and mother, in and out of New York.
List of 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. Whös 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
About the author
Rachel Zucker is the author of Museum of Accidents (Wave Books, 2009), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the author of The Bad Wife Handbook (Wesleyan University, 2007), The Last Clear Narrative (Wesleyan University, 2004), Eating in the Underworld (Wesleyan University, 2003), and Annunciation (The Center for Book Arts, 2002), as well as the co-editor (with Arielle Greenberg) of Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days and Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections (both from the University of Iowa Press). She is co-author (also with Arielle Greenberg) of Home/birth: a poemic, a nonfiction book about birth, friendship, and feminism. Her memoir, MOTHERs, will be published by Counterpath Press in 2013. A graduate of Yale and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Zucker teaches at NYU and the 92nd Street Y. She currently lives in NYC with her husband and three sons and was awarded an National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in 2012.
Summary
A tense and personal account of a life as a woman, wife, and mother, in and out of New York.
