PLOT Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers and the role of violence

and the role of violence in effecting historical change

with help from his mighty team of black intelligentsia

With a New Preface (October 25

one can well imagine that the thought of Thomas Sankara—with its call to rebel

PLOT Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers and the role of violenceHer 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