A review by saaramyrene
The Bad Wife Handbook by Rachel Zucker

3.0

I've read a few reviews that say the one-off poems that begin and end this book are inferior to its interconnected series of middle-section poems, but I disagree. They're almost all compelling studies of mother/wife-hood, but the middle poems seemed almost self-indulgent and sloppy, while the shorter ones at the front and back were lean and resonant--more so, I thought, for their compression. Maybe it's just a taste thing.