and Grace Wales Bonner
brilliant love letter to feminism
This isn't the self we've built up in response to our surroundings
can't seem to disentangle their lives
a Black slave girl who comes of age on Portuguese plantations and escapes to a fugitive slave settlement called Palmares
Plot Mothers & Big-Sisters and Grace Wales BonnerIn 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