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.
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"In poem after stunning poem, The Last Clear Narrative is one woman telling the truth about her life, to recall Muriel Rukeyser, and in so doing, splitting the world back open." (Cynthia Hogue, author of Flux )
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Jarring and disjointed,
By Mandy (Chicago, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Last Clear Narrative (Wesleyan Poetry Series) (Paperback)
This book of poetry was a huge let-down after reading "Eating in the Underworld." I found her interpretations of the Persephone/Demeter myth in that first book stunning, some of the best poetry I've ever read. With "The Last Clear Narrative," it literally felt like a different poet. The poetry was very jerky and erratic, often nonsensical with its phrasing and spacing. Kudos to her if she just wanted to try a different poetic approach, but it makes me hesitant to try her other books.
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