The Pedestrians

The Pedestrians

<div><p>"Zucker is a poet of bottom-scraping, blood-chilling existential anxiety, one among many, and a poet of New York City, one among many, and a poet of American Jewish inheritance, one among many, and one of the funniest, too."—<I>Boston Review</I></p><p>Rachel Zucker returns to themes of motherhood, marriage, and the life of an artist in this double collection of poems. <I>Fables</I>, written in prose form, shows the reader different settings (mountains, ocean, Paris) of Zucker's travels and meditations on place. <I>The Pedestrians</I> brings us back to her native New York and the daily frustrations of a woman torn by obligations.</p><B><p>That Great Diaspora</p></B><I><p>I'll never leave New York & when I do<BR>I too will be unbodied—what? you<BR>imagine I might transmogrify? I'm from<BR>nowhere which means here & so wade out<BR>into the briny dream of elsewheres like<BR>a released dybbyk but can't stand<BR>the soulessness now everyone who ever<BR>made sense to me has died & everyone I love<BR>grows from my body like limbs on a rootless tree</p></I><p><B>Rachel Zucker</B> is the author of <I>Museum of Accidents</I>, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the author of <I>The Bad Wife</I>, <I>The Last Clear Narrative</I>, <I>Eating in the Underworld</I>, and <I>Annunciation</I>.</p><br></div>