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  <title><![CDATA[The Bad Wife Handbook (Wesleyan Poetry Series)]]></title>
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  <default_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.</default_description>
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 21 06:53:10 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought the collection as a whole was pretty good, but the middle of it catapulted it to four-stars because, so much, I love her poems about motherhood.  Seriously, try a few of these lines on for size.  (Taken out of the poems, they are not done justice, but I don't want to risk wrongly-formattin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27016742">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read a few reviews that say the one-off poems that begin and end this book are inferior to its interconnected series of middle-section poems, but I disagree. They're almost all compelling studies of mother/wife-hood, but the middle poems seemed almost self-indulgent and sloppy, while the shorte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34568181">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm ready to start a Rachel Zucker fanclub. In the end, I didn't like this as much as The Last Clear Narrative, but that is because it is her long poems I'm in love with and this one had less of those...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as fabulous as _The Last Clear Narrative_, but good. <br/><br/>Happy I own it. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am the bad husband!]]></body>
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