Commonplace Podcast

Episode 125: The Poetics of Motherhood


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Books by Rachel Zucker

The Poetics of Wrongness (Wave Poetry, 2023) 

SoundMachine (Wave Poetry, 2019) 

The Pedestrians (Wave Poetry, 2014) 

MOTHERs (2014) 

Museum of Accidents (Wave Poetry, 2009) 

The Bad Wife Handbook (Wesleyan University Press, 2007)

The Last Clear Narrative (2004) 

Eating in the Underworld (2003) 

Books by Rachel Zucker and Arielle Greenberg

Home/birth: A Poemic (2011) 

Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days (University of Iowa Press, 2010)

Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections (University of Iowa Press, 2008) 

Also Referenced

Robert Hass

Alice Notley

Bernadette Mayer

Toi Derricotte

Alicia Ostriker

Arielle Greenberg

Marina Abramović

Jorie Graham

Ina May Gaskin

Brenda Hillman

Adrienne Rich

Dorothea Lange

Robert Frank

Sally Mann

Frank O’Hara

Allen Ginsberg

James Schuyler

Tillie Olsen

Many thanks to the English Department at UC Berkeley, The Bagley Wright Poetry Lecture Series and the BWLS Podcast, Ellen Welcker, Heidi Broadhead, Charlie Wright and everyone at Wave Books. Here is a longer list of acknowledgments and a partial list of referenced sources for Rachel’s lectures.

Commonplace has no institutional or corporate affiliation and is made possible by you, our listeners! Support Commonplace by joining the Commonplace Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/commonplacepodcast

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