I am only able to be honest. And sometimes my view of the world is pretty dark. But still funny. Rachel Zucker More Quotes by Rachel Zucker More Quotes From Rachel Zucker 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 like these can provide. Rachel Zucker prayermemorablebook Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class. Rachel Zucker classlittlesthinking When I edit the poems - and I do edit, which some people don't mean when they use the term "stream of consciousness" - I'm usually editing toward greater accuracy, which sometimes means more fragmentation, because that is the way I think. Rachel Zucker editingmeanthinking I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it. Rachel Zucker studentswriting Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing. Rachel Zucker subwaywriting Usually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever. Rachel Zucker satisfyingsugar I love food too much - not because I'm fat but because it's so consumptionistic, etc. Rachel Zucker i-love-foodetctoo-much I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular. Rachel Zucker i-hatehalloweenhate I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all. Rachel Zucker dressing-uphalloweenremember I do not like it when other people dress up. I like everyone to be THEMSELVES. Rachel Zucker dressespeople I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it. Rachel Zucker halloweenstrangerdoors Halloween means that young girls dress up in highly sexualized outfits that would never be acceptable if it weren't Halloween. Rachel Zucker halloweengirlmean 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 dressing-uphalloweenself I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience of thinking. Rachel Zucker movementtryingthinking My poetry definitely comes out of a female body. Rachel Zucker female-bodyfemalebody I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up. Rachel Zucker frustratednarrativesometimes Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten. Rachel Zucker underratedessentialssurvival I think humor and terror are very closely related. Rachel Zucker relatedterrorthinking One of my greatest anxieties as a mother is head injuries. Rachel Zucker injuryanxietymother I really, really fear head injuries. But when people hit their heads in movies or fall down - I can't stop laughing. Rachel Zucker laughingpeoplefall
