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The Bad Wife Handbook

By Rachel Zucker
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Publisher Description

Rachel Zucker's third book of poems is a darkly comic collection that looks unsparingly at the difficulties and compromises of married life. Formally innovative and blazingly direct, The Bad Wife Handbook cross-examines marriage, motherhood, monogamy, and writing itself. Rachel Zucker's upending of grammatical and syntactic expectations lends these poems an urgent richness and aesthetic complexity that mirrors the puzzles of real life. Candid, subversive, and genuinely moving, The Bad Wife Handbook is an important portrait of contemporary marriage and the writing life, of emotional connection and disconnection, of togetherness and aloneness.

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“After reading Museum of Accidents, I noticed immediately the resemblance between Zucker and E. E. Cummings. In the Bad Wife Handbook, Zucker’s poems are liberated in form, but seem haunted by an obsession with structure and content. Zucker doesn’t hide in science, but works alongside its language to find an intersection. To be honest, the physical size of the book, while unique, made it difficult to hold, and therefore incited me to read faster to put it down. Special thanks to Megan for lending me this book.”

About Rachel Zucker

Rachel Zucker is the author of The Last Clear Narrative, The Bad Wife Handbook and Eating in the Underworld. She is the winner of the Barrow Street Poetry Prize, the Center for Book Arts Award and the Salt Hill Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in many well-known journals including: 3rd Bed, American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Epoch, Fence, Iowa Review, Pleiades and Prairie Schooner as well as in the Best American Poetry 2001 anthology.

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