Rachel Zucker

Author of Museum of Accidents

11+ Works 199 Members 5 Reviews

About the Author

Rachel Zucker is the author of Eating in the Underworld (Wesleyan, 2003). Winner of the Barrow Street Award, the Strousse Award, and the Center for Book Arts Chapbook Prize, Zucker's poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies including APR, Colorado Review, Pleiades, and The Best American show more Poetry 2001. She lives in New York City show less

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Works by Rachel Zucker

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Museum of Accidents (2009) 51 copies, 2 reviews

The Pedestrians (2014) 45 copies, 1 review

Eating in the Underworld (2003) 27 copies, 1 review

The Poetics of Wrongness (2023) 15 copies

MOTHERs (2013) 14 copies, 1 review

The Bad Wife Handbook (Wesleyan Poetry) (2007) 13 copies

The Last Clear Narrative (Wesleyan Poetry) (2004) 12 copies

SoundMachine (2019) 12 copies

Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days (2010) 6 copies

Home/Birth (2017) 3 copies

Annunciation 1 copy

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Associated Works

The Best American Poetry 2001 (2001) — Contributor — 226 copies

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2015 (2015) — Contributor — 110 copies, 5 reviews

Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (2006) — Contributor — 89 copies

The Best American Poetry 2014 (The Best American Poetry series) (2014) — Contributor — 82 copies

Wait Till I'm Dead: Uncollected Poems (2016) — Foreword — 81 copies, 3 reviews

Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism (2018) — Contributor — 77 copies, 3 reviews

Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres (2015) — Contributor — 23 copies

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Legal name: Zucker, Rachel
Birthdate: 1971
Gender: female
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA
Places of residence: Greenwich Village, New York, USA
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Occupations: dichter
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Organizations: New York University
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Museum of Accidents by Rachel Zucker

I guess you could file this under "neurotic-hipster-mom-language-poetry." Zucker's voice has undeniable force, and some of these poems are vivid in their emotional violence and disjointed verse. A lot of it, however, feels confessional in the worst sense of the word: rote, self-absorbed, hysterical, and lyrically sloppy. The author's high-strung personality becomes numbing after a while; it's like being verbally assaulted at top speed for an hour straight.

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MikeLindgren51 | 1 other review | Aug 7, 2018 |

MOTHERs by Rachel Zucker

So honest and beautiful

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RachelGMB | Aug 5, 2015 |

Museum of Accidents by Rachel Zucker

I don't typically "get" poetry. Until now.

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Lisahgolden | 1 other review | Jul 25, 2010 |

Eating in the Underworld (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Rachel Zucker

The story of Persephone is retold in this collection of poems. Instead of being kidnapped and dragged down the underworld by Hades, Persephone makes the conscious choice to make the journey, a kind of coming of age rebellion, as a daughter goes forth to claim and shape her own life as a woman and as Queen of the underworld.

Each poem is a snippet from a diary or note and letter in deceptively simple lines, revealing the struggle when a mother tried to possess her daughter, the sensual mysteries of falling in love, and the eerie beauty of the underworld.… (more)

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andreablythe | Jun 3, 2010 |

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