Plot Mothers & Big-Sisters can't seem to disentangle their

can't seem to disentangle their lives

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

I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble

And how do we even know what we want

Bazterrica's vision of the human experience emerges in complex

Plot Mothers & Big-Sisters can't seem to disentangle theirIn 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