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I'm fascinated by but afraid of animals.
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Animal
Fascinated
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I like the way the prose and poetry interact.
Rachel Zucker / Poet
Prose
Prose And Poetry
Way
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I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.
Rachel Zucker / Poet
Halloween
Hate
I Hate
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My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.
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Body
Female
Female Body
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I think humor and terror are very closely related.
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Related
Terror
Thinking
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One of my greatest anxieties as a mother is head injuries.
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Anxiety
Injury
Mother
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I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up.
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Frustrated
Narrative
Sometimes
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I'm even afraid of kittens. They bite too! But I respect animals.
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Animal
Bites
Kitten
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It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.
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Currents
Situation
Writing
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I love it when artists talk about process! I love the movie Comedian.
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Artist
Comedian
Process
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I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.
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Students
Writing
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Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing.
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Subway
Writing
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I do not like it when other people dress up. I like everyone to be THEMSELVES.
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Dresses
People
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Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.
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Essentials
Survival
Underrated
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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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Etc
I Love Food
Too Much
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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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Class
Littles
Thinking
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Usually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever.
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Satisfying
Sugar
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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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Animal
Complicated Relationship
Humans
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In high school my mother advised me to make my last lines into titles. It was very good advice.
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Advice
Mother
School
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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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Poet
Should
Writing
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I am only able to be honest. And sometimes my view of the world is pretty dark. But still funny.
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Dark
Views
World
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I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all.
Rachel Zucker / Poet
Dressing Up
Halloween
Remember
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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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Influence
World
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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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Animal
Longing
Wish
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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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Accepting
Silent
Struggle
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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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Animal
Thinking
World
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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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Fall
Laughing
People
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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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Girl
Halloween
Mean
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I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it.
Rachel Zucker / Poet
Doors
Halloween
Stranger
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I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience of thinking.
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Movement
Thinking
Trying
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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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Husband
Ice
Keys
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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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Jobs
Depth
Important
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I'm interested in the self. And in the limits and transformations of self. And in self presentation. And in doubt. And in playing with the audience's expectations. But I don't like dressing up like on Halloween.
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Dressing Up
Halloween
Self
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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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Editing
Mean
Thinking
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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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Book
Memorable
Prayer
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