Plot Mothers & Big-Sisters And how do we even

And how do we even know what we want

This isn't the self we've built up in response to our surroundings

a Black slave girl who comes of age on Portuguese plantations and escapes to a fugitive slave settlement called Palmares

Bazterrica's vision of the human experience emerges in complex

Plot Mothers & Big-Sisters And how do we evenIn her third collection of poems, Claudia Rankine creates a profoundly daring, ingeniously experimental examination of pregnancy, childbirth, and artistic expression. Liv, an expectant mother, and her husband, Erland, are at an impasse from her reluctance to bring new life into a bewildering world. The couple's journey is charted through conversations, dreams, memories, and meditations, expanding and exploding the emotive capabilities of language and