Description: The latest collection from award-winning poet Vievee Francis, The Shared World imagines motherhood--with and without children--and the common space between families, lovers, and strangers.
Review Quotes: "Vievee Francis is, undoubtedly, one of the most compelling poets alive and writing today. In her fourth book, The Shared World, she charts a course of how entangled all of our lives are in today's world. Who do we share the world with? Who do we ignore? What does it mean to live so closely in proximity to each other and to have such deeply complicated histories? At the heart of this book is this truth: what is the telling, and how do we go about the ways of doing so? With bravery, Francis peels back the layers, not leaving a simple understanding but instead, by the telling, examining the complications of what it means to tell." --Fatimah Asghar, author of If They Come for Us: Poems