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5.0 out of 5 stars
Challenging and ambivalent,
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This review is from: The Bad Wife Handbook (Wesleyan Poetry Series) (Hardcover)
Zucker's challenging and erudite work demands many readings. Motherhood, marriage, and writing are described in terms of astronomy, genetics, and organic chemistry. Zucker writes in aphorisms, proverbs, and oxymorons. A page of wispy short lines couplets faces a page of solid block run-on sentences. Like Marcel Duchamp, she's not afraid to crack a pane of glass, forcing the reader to squint through fragments and disjunctions and to adapt multiple points of view. One might hear echoes of Lyn Hejinian or Leslie Scalapino.
'The Bad Wife Handbook' is largely autobiographical. It's 'about' the conflicts and ambiguities within three roles--wife, mother, and writer--and about the pressures each places on the others: "Truth is: / I want to ruin your life." |
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The Bad Wife Handbook (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Rachel Zucker (Hardcover - December 28, 2007)
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