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 coupleampaposs journey is charted through conversations dreams memories and meditations expanding and exploding the emotive capabilities of language and formampnbsp A text like no other it crosses genres combining verse prose and dialogue to achieve an unparalleled understanding of creation and existence
