Description
An arresting, genre-defying work of poetry and prose, this book follows an unnamed Black protagonist through intimate encounters shaped by racism, violence, friendship, and the pressures of public life. Against this contemporary landscape, reflections on Virginia Woolf, pregnancy, artistic identity, and the possibility of motherhood deepen the work’s exploration of selfhood, memory, and creative freedom. Claudia Rankine’s fragmented, lyrical style moves between the personal and political, exposing the quiet assumptions and sudden confrontations that define an embattled inner life. Intense, intellectually searching, and formally inventive, it is a powerful meditation on what it means to remain visible, vulnerable, and alive in a world that continually attempts to define you.
Available Editions
paperback
Grove Press
Published Apr 9, 2001
102 pages
ISBN: 9780802137920
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Details
First Published
2001
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Plot by Claudia Rankine.