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
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
