Plot Mothers & Big-Sisters Karla Cornejo Villavicencio combines sensitive

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio combines sensitive reporting and powerful personal narratives to bring to light remarkable stories of resilience

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

And how do we even know what we want

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

can't seem to disentangle their lives

Plot Mothers & Big-Sisters Karla Cornejo Villavicencio combines sensitiveIn 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