Plot Mothers & Big-Sisters This isn't the self we've

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

and the people

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

" and Michael Pollan defends a gothic cousin of the sunflower in "Consider the Castor Bean"

can't seem to disentangle their lives

Plot Mothers & Big-Sisters This isn't the self we'veIn 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