false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181079731m/1110142.jpg 1110142 2 In her second collection of poems, Rachel Zucker returns to a more autobiographical stance and writes about the particulars of marriage, pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood--experiences that radically surprised her. But this is no simple reportage. With candor, humor, and compassion, Zucker discovers a new poetic territory: a landscape between story and fragment, a way of telling that is neither confessional nor intellectually detached. At the cliff-edge of narrative, a high place where language is the rope and falling the perception, Zucker's poems are unsentimental, true to the disjunctive experiences of loving, giving birth, raising a child, being lonely, being alive. A poetry of the body, of desire, about human frailty and strength, The Last Clear Narrative fills a void in the history of women writing about everyday experience and speaks to the nature of narrative itself. 1097108 25 10 2004 The Last Clear Narrative (Wesleyan Poetry) total:44|5:22|4:11|3:9|2:2| 44 185 69 4 0 0 false false Fri May 29 18:49:08 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 18:58:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Jul 12 14:24:56 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 15:28:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Dec 14 08:50:16 -0800 2007 Mon Apr 13 15:09:04 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Aug 05 16:11:55 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 20 16:40:32 -0800 2007
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