Description
Book SynopsisThrough heartbreaking, often comic, genre-non-conforming pieces spanning the past 10 years, Rachel Zucker trains her relentless attention on marriage, motherhood, grief, the need to speak, depression, sex, and many other topics. Part poetry, part memoir, part lyric essay—and not limited by any of these categories—
SoundMachine is a book written out of the persistent feeling that the human voice is both a meaningless sound and the only way we know we exist.
Trade Review"Artfully layered . . . these pieces defy genre and interrogate the role of wife, mother, and artist as fixed identities. . . . Zucker renders even the simplest inquiries—such as ‘hasn’t anyone tried to stop this?—resonant and profound in this restless and thoughtful book."— starred review,
Publishers Weekly"
SoundMachine's immediacy and urgency make reading it an imperative."—Katie Berta,
PloughsharesTable of ContentsContents
Song of the Dark Room
It’s the World Committing Suicide Said One Mom
Seven Beds Six Cities Eight Weeks
Hours Days Years Unmoor Their Orbits
I Can Barely Stand to Go to Weddings
Rough Waters
Death Project [Poem]
Let the World Unfurl One Word at a Time
Snapshot
Five Months Later I Finally Have Something to Say
SoundMachine
Need to Know
In the End
Confessional
Planet Hulk
After the New Couples Therapist
Sex with Famous Poet
The Feeling
Enough Is Enough
And Still I Speak of It
It Has Come to My Attention
The Moon Is in Her Caul Tonight
There Are Two Magics
We Cannot Make Them Happy Behave Passionate Patient Safe Sorry
Residency
