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Plot / Claudia Rankine.
Van Pelt Library PS3568.A572 P58 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rankine, Claudia, 1963-
- Series:
- Grove Press poetry series
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 102 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Grove Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- Her third collection of poetry, Claudia Rankine's Plot is original and enchanting, and the language, as in her acclaimed The End of the Alphabet, never ceases to startle and confront.
- Plot is a postmodern dialogue about pregnancy and childbirth. Liv, the expectant mother, and her husband, Erland, find themselves propelled into one of our most basic plots -- boy loves girl, girl gets pregnant. Liv's respect for life, however, makes her reluctant to bring a new life into the world. The couple's electrifying journey is charted through dreams, conversations, and reflections. A text like no other, it crosses genres, existing at times in poetry, at times in dialogue and prose, in order to arrive at new life and baby Ersatz. This stunning, avant-garde performance enacts what it means to be human, and to invest in humanity.
- ISBN:
- 080213792X
- OCLC:
- 45207911
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