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Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.

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Rachel Zucker
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 1
Poet
Writer
Essential
Survival
Essentials
Humor
Underwritten
Funny
Underrated
Vastly
Poems

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I agree that comedy does a good job - and is often about - stepping over the line - Lenny Bruce, etc. - and that this is important for a lot of poets too. I guess I feel like there has to be depth.
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It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.
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I'm in a hard place now. A very silent place. And I'm struggling to either accept this or drag myself out of it.
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I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not.
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Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class.
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I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up.
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I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should.
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I really, really fear head injuries. But when people hit their heads in movies or fall down - I can't stop laughing.
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Usually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever.
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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.
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I'm fascinated by but afraid of animals.
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I think it's a huge shortcoming of mine - this disconnect between the world of human and animals. We are animals.
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I love food too much - not because I'm fat but because it's so consumptionistic, etc.
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I'm even afraid of kittens. They bite too! But I respect animals.
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I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.
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One of my greatest anxieties as a mother is head injuries.
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Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing.
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I think humor and terror are very closely related.
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I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.
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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.
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