Ask a Bookseller: 'The Poetics of Wrongness'

Ask a Bookseller · Apr 15, 2023 · 2m

We couldn't get through National Poetry Month without featuring the works of at least one poet on Ask a Bookseller, and this week Evelyn Bauer of Papercuts Bookshop in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Mass., supplied the recommendation. Bauer recommends “The Poetics of Wrongness” by poet Rachel Zucker. The book is a series of lectures adapted and expanded for the page. Don't be turned off by the word “lecture,” Bauer says, think of it as essays written to be spoken aloud to engage an audience.Zucker engages with the idea of wrongness in a number of ways, from the practical — the ways…