{"product_id":"the-pedestrians","title":"The Pedestrians","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Zucker is a poet of bottom-scraping, blood-chilling existential anxiety, one among many, and a poet of New York City, one among many, and a poet of American Jewish inheritance, one among many, and one of the funniest, too.\"--\u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRachel Zucker returns to themes of motherhood, marriage, and the life of an artist in this double collection of poems. \u003ci\u003eFables\u003c\/i\u003e, written in prose form, shows the reader different settings (mountains, ocean, Paris) of Zucker's travels and meditations on place. \u003ci\u003eThe Pedestrians\u003c\/i\u003e brings us back to her native New York and the daily frustrations of a woman torn by obligations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat Great Diaspora\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eI'll never leave New York \u0026amp; when I do\u003cbr\u003eI too will be unbodied--what? you\u003cbr\u003eimagine I might transmogrify? I'm from\u003cbr\u003enowhere which means here \u0026amp; so wade out\u003cbr\u003einto the briny dream of elsewheres like\u003cbr\u003ea released dybbyk but can't stand\u003cbr\u003ethe soulessness now everyone who ever\u003cbr\u003emade sense to me has died \u0026amp; everyone I love\u003cbr\u003egrows from my body like limbs on a rootless tree\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRachel Zucker\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eMuseum of Accidents\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Bad Wife\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Clear Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEating in the Underworld\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAnnunciation\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rachel Zucker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54132048167125,"sku":"BS-I6J-517896","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0777\/7170\/2485\/files\/9781933517896-HD.jpg?v=1782933340","url":"https:\/\/www.acornbookshop.com\/products\/the-pedestrians","provider":"Acorn Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}