Rachel Zucker sweeps all the corners in this maximalist project of poems and prose, navigating love, loss, and personal and political despair.

Zucker sweeps all the corners in this maximalist project of poems and prose navigating love, loss, and personal and political despair.

"Zucker's namenaming, carping, merciless, and gloriously human body of work thus far suggests that any full account of being an individual has to register how specimen-like and interchangeable our lives often seem."—Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker

"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 . . . "—Steph Burt, The Boston Review

"Rachel Zucker is a courageous poet. Not because she dodges bullets in a war zone (though I bet she would), or because she yells outlandish things on cable TV (I bet she'd do that, too), but because she writes poetry in a way that interrogates what it means to tell the truth."—Travis Nichols, The Huffington Post

"Zucker is about the only contemporary poet I’ve read who manages to address [motherhood] without sounding coy and cloying. Mothers should read, others can learn."—Library Journal

"By sharing experience through interrogating and dynamic language, Zucker shines light on how we can live honestly against the grain of expected feeling and attitude and how we might feel powerful and passionate in a time of terror and fear."—American Poet

"Zucker's not interested in making readers see anything 'as if for the first time.' She's here to remind us how much there is to see in what we've seen before."—Chicago Tribune