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I'm not a reader of poetry so I was hesitant to read this for the ReadHarder challenge. It is a series of poems from a woman living a midlife crisis who lives in NYC. The poems are understandable. Thank goodness. I did enjoy the poems about her dreams. I could see the poet having a notebook on her nightstand just to write down her dreams before she forgets them. The dreams are illogical, yet relate to what she's feeling.

I didn‘t know beforehand but this was just exactly what I wanted right now. Zucker takes all of the everyday anxieties and frustrations of artmaking and motherhood and marriage and makes something amazing out of them. Moving through different registers from stream-of-consciousness to fable, this collection just hit me dead-on. So good.

In case you need it.

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Rachel Zucker is pretty great.