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… — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In high school my mother advised me to make my last lines into titles. It was very good advice. — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all. — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster… — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
“a woman with young children is not a woman but a mammal, salve, croon, water carrier” — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
Usually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever. — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
I think it's a huge shortcoming of mine - this disconnect between the world of human and animals. We are animals. — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class. — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not. — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should. — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
