Plot

In 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 form. A text like no other, it crosses genres, combining verse, prose, and dialogue to achieve an unparalleled understanding of creation and existence.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 02/13/2001
ISBN: 9780802137920
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.47w x 0.45d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/19/2001 pg. 87
Ebony 07/01/2001 pg. 25
Qbr the Black Book Review 07/01/2001 pg. 29