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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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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Last Clear Narrative
• Author: Rachel Zucker
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120
• EAN: 9780819567116
• ID: 08850482
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Weight: 248 g
• Dimensions: 217 × 215 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. October 2004

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