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"Leaving the M/other develops a striking parallel between Whitman's poetry and Kristeva's theory with close readings of poems published from 1855 to 1881. At the root of the analysis is the metaphor of the ocean."--BOOK JACKET.

When Laura finds a familiar book of poems in her estranged twin Lizzie's bedroom, the sisters are dragged through a turbulent past, reliving their complicated history in order to make sense of their present.