The Mother of All Questions Poetry and a pair of meat

and a pair of meat monsters

translated from the Japanese by Yuki Kaneko

Inspired by real-life makers Ada Lovelace and Marie Curie

Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize

The Mother of All Questions Poetry and a pair of meatIn a timely follow up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers indispensable commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more. In characteristic style, Solnit mixes humor, keen analysis, and powerful insight in these essays.