Rachel Zucker returns to themes of motherhood, marriage, and the life of an artist in this double collection of poems. , written in prose form, shows the reader different settings (mountains, ocean, Paris) of Zucker's travels and meditations on place. 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 is the author of , which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the author of , , and .