SoundMachine

By Rachel Zucker

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• Rachel Zucker sweeps all the corners in this maximalist project of poems and prose, navigating love, loss, and personal and political despair. Through heartbreaking, often comic, genre-non-conforming pieces spanning the past 10 years, she trains her relentless attention on marriage, motherhood, grief, the need to speak, depression, sex, and many other topics. Part poetry, part memoir, part lyric essay—and not limited by any of these categories—SoundMachine is a book written out of the persistent feeling that the human voice is both a meaningless sound and the only way we know we exist.
  
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• Artfully layered . . . these pieces defy genre and interrogate the role of wife, mother, and artist as fixed identities. . . . Zucker renders even the simplest inquiries—such as "hasn’t anyone tried to stop this?"—resonant and profound in this restless and thoughtful book.
  Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
  
  SoundMachine’s immediacy and urgency make reading it an imperative.
  Katie Berta, Ploughshares