We The Parasites by A. V. Marraccini BBC about a mother who prefers

about a mother who prefers lettuces to life

'This collection by a leading Georgian poet is part of the Poetry Translation Centre’s programme commissioning British poets – here

Sujata Bhatt

edited and introduced by Richard Zenith

We The Parasites by A. V. Marraccini BBC about a mother who prefersIn her debut book, A. V. Marraccini explores how we inhabit works of art, and how our sense of longing informs and changes our relationship to them. Intertwining fig wasps, Updike, Genet, Twombly, Rilke, jewel heists, and a vividly rendered panoply of histories and myths from classical antiquity, We the Parasites both tells a strange love story and makes a slantwise argument about reading with the body, and what it ultimately means to know, and to