Plot Mothers & Big-Sisters I buried the girl I

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

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

a Black slave girl who comes of age on Portuguese plantations and escapes to a fugitive slave settlement called Palmares

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

can't seem to disentangle their lives

Plot Mothers & Big-Sisters I buried the girl IIn 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