In this Book
- The Bad Wife Handbook
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Wesleyan University Press
summary
Rachel Zucker's third book of poems is a darkly comic collection that looks unsparingly at the difficulties and compromises of married life. Formally innovative and blazingly direct, The Bad Wife Handbook cross-examines marriage, motherhood, monogamy, and writing itself. Rachel Zucker's upending of grammatical and syntactic expectations lends these poems an urgent richness and aesthetic complexity that mirrors the puzzles of real life. Candid, subversive, and genuinely moving, The Bad Wife Handbook is an important portrait of contemporary marriage and the writing life, of emotional connection and disconnection, of togetherness and aloneness.
Table of Contents
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- Monogamist
- p. 3
- The Secret Room
- p. 6
- Monogamist
- p. 8
- Axon, Dendrite, Rain
- p. 10
- Hermeneutic
- p. 12
- Wife, Wife, Duck
- p. 15
- Monogamist
- p. 18
- What Is Not Science is Art is Nature
- pp. 24-25
- Freud Had Sex but Jung Had God
- pp. 26-28
- Squirrel in a Palm Tree
- pp. 31-48
- Annunciation
- pp. 51-68
- Autographies
- pp. 89-112
- Acknowledgments, Dedications, and Notes
- pp. 113-115
Additional Information
ISBN
9780819576118
Related ISBN(s)
9780819568465
MARC Record
OCLC
907774803
Pages
130
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No