The Poetics of Wrongness is a collection of essaytalks that the poet Rachel Zucker expanded from lectures presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series in 2016.Devastating in their revelations yet hopeful in their endurance these are lectures of protest and reckoning. Zucker declares I write against. My poetics is a poetics of opposition and provocation that I never outgrew. Against the status quo or the powers that be writing out of and into wrongness. Thus Zucker deftly dismantles the outdated paradigms of motherhood aesthetics feminism poetics and politics. Bringing Bernadette Mayer Marina Abramovic Alice Notley Adrienne Rich Audre Lordeamong many othersamp8212into the conversation Zucker questions the categories that have been imposed on poetry as well as a poets need to speak and the resulting responsibilities. Prescient in their original observations these expanded talks seek to respond to and engage the many political events since their presentation remaining timelessly persistent in their galvanizing force.amp160 amp160