Through heartbreaking, often comic, genre-non-conforming pieces spanning the past 10 years, Rachel Zucker trains her relentless attention on marriage, motherhood, grief, the need to speak, depression, sex, and many other topics. Part poetry, part memoir, part lyric essayand not limited by any of these categoriesSoundMachine is a book written out of the persistent feeling that the human voice is both a meaningless sound and the only way we know we exist.
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Dimensions: 133 x 190mm
Publication Date: 31 Oct 2019
Publisher: Wave Books
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781940696867
About Rachel Zucker
Rachel Zucker is the author of many books including SoundMachine (Wave Books 2019) The Pedestrians (Wave Books 2014) and Museum of Accidents (Wave Books 2009) which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the co-author (with Arielle Greenberg) of the nonfiction title Home/birth: a poemic and co-editor (also with Arielle Greenberg) of Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obamas First 100 Days and Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections (both from the University of Iowa Press). A graduate of Yale University and the Iowa Writers Workshop Zucker currently teaches poetry at NYU. In 2016 she was a Bagley Wright Lecturer and wrote and delivered a series of talks on poetry photography confessionalism motherhood and the ethics of representing real people in art. She was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in 2012 a Sustainable Arts Fellowship in 2016 and residencies from The MacDowell Colony and the Vermont Studio Center in 2018. Zucker lives in NYC with her husband and three sons.