Lauren Levin‘s poetry collection The Braid (Krupskaya Books, 2017) is described by its publisher as “a fever dream of pregnancy and early parenting in the era of the police state.” Here are 21 moments and meditations, strung together from from this whirlwind text.
1. The Braid opens wondering, “what it means / to say we want our work to be vulnerable when we’re the ones who make it.” (13)
Vulnerability is the ultimate braveness, admitting one’s own insecurity. Telling the truths we are not sure we can understand. Standing in our uncertainty and being willing to speak from there. It is guts. This book has guts.
