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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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Rachel Zucker
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 1
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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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I'm fascinated by but afraid of animals.
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Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.
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I have a complicated relationship with non-human animals. I've never really been close to one.
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I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.
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I like the way the prose and poetry interact.
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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 was not popular enough - or at all - when Vanilla Ice was popular to remember who Vanilla Ice is without my husband reminding me. So I don't have a Vanilla Ice key chain.
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Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing.
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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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Halloween means that young girls dress up in highly sexualized outfits that would never be acceptable if it weren't Halloween.
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I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.
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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 think humor and terror are very closely related.
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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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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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It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.
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My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.
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I do not like it when other people dress up. I like everyone to be THEMSELVES.
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Penises are literally all around me all the time, and have a lot of influence on the world, on my world.
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