Mother Songs for the Unborn Second Baby When the boss says “flexibility

When the boss says “flexibility

Imogen Xtian Smith

the author threads various stories together to give us this portrait of translation as a compelling

These poems are mnemonic screenshots of the author’s request for affirmative asylum to relieve the individual’s fear of repercussions in her home country

Her poems are surreal

Mother Songs for the Unborn Second Baby When the boss says “flexibilitym. s. redcherries A stunning, multimorphic work of poetry and prose about Indigenous identity mother is a work rooted in an intimate fracture: an Indigenous child is adopted out of her tribe and raised by a non Indian family. As an adult finding her way back to her origins, our unnamed narrator begins to put the pieces of her birth familys history together through the stories told to her by her mother, father, sister, and brother, all of whom remained