The Pedestrians

We will be sending review copies to major media outlets and those that focus on issues of women's issues and motherhood. Museum of Accidents had several successful course adoptions, and The Pedestrians has even greater potential to be popular with academics due to its use of prose and poetry. We will be sending desk copies of the book to friends of Rachel Zucker who teach and those who taught her previous books. Poems from this collection have been published or are forthcoming from American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly, and American Poet. We have over 3200 Facebook followers, 9100 Twitter followers, and a mailing list of 2000 people. We will promote The Pedestrians on all of our social media sites and on our website.

A tense and personal account of a life as a woman, wife, and mother, in and out of New York."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."--Boston Review Rachel Zucker returns to themes of motherhood, marriage, and the life of an artist in this double collection of poems. Fables, written in prose form, shows the reader different settings (mountains, ocean, Paris) of Zucker's travels and meditations on place. The Pedestrians brings us back to her native New York and the daily frustrations of a woman torn by obligations. That Great Diaspora I'll never leave New York & when I do I too will be unbodied--what? you imagine I might transmogrify? I'm from nowhere which means here & so wade out into the briny dream of elsewheres like a released dybbyk but can't stand the soulessness now everyone who ever made sense to me has died & everyone I love grows from my body like limbs on a rootless tree Rachel Zucker is the author of Museum of Accidents, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the author of The Bad Wife, The Last Clear Narrative, Eating in the Underworld, and Annunciation.