Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten. Rachel Zucker More Quotes by Rachel Zucker More Quotes From Rachel Zucker Lizzie Harris's Stop Wanting is an unflinching book about a girlhood filled with violence, doubt, vulnerability, and loss. These gorgeously crafted and hauntingly memorable poems are a bleak place full of life, prayer, and the kind of answers only poems like these can provide. Rachel Zucker prayer memorable book Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class. Rachel Zucker class littles thinking When I edit the poems - and I do edit, which some people don't mean when they use the term "stream of consciousness" - I'm usually editing toward greater accuracy, which sometimes means more fragmentation, because that is the way I think. Rachel Zucker editing mean thinking I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it. Rachel Zucker students writing Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing. Rachel Zucker subway writing Usually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever. Rachel Zucker satisfying sugar I love food too much - not because I'm fat but because it's so consumptionistic, etc. Rachel Zucker i-love-food etc too-much I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular. Rachel Zucker i-hate halloween hate I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all. Rachel Zucker dressing-up halloween remember I do not like it when other people dress up. I like everyone to be THEMSELVES. Rachel Zucker dresses people I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it. Rachel Zucker halloween stranger doors Halloween means that young girls dress up in highly sexualized outfits that would never be acceptable if it weren't Halloween. Rachel Zucker halloween girl mean I'm interested in the self. And in the limits and transformations of self. And in self presentation. And in doubt. And in playing with the audience's expectations. But I don't like dressing up like on Halloween. Rachel Zucker dressing-up halloween self I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience of thinking. Rachel Zucker movement trying thinking My poetry definitely comes out of a female body. Rachel Zucker female-body female body I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up. Rachel Zucker frustrated narrative sometimes I am only able to be honest. And sometimes my view of the world is pretty dark. But still funny. Rachel Zucker views dark world I think humor and terror are very closely related. Rachel Zucker related terror thinking One of my greatest anxieties as a mother is head injuries. Rachel Zucker injury anxiety mother I really, really fear head injuries. But when people hit their heads in movies or fall down - I can't stop laughing. Rachel Zucker laughing people fall
