Rot Contracts

The legal contract is a record of our promises to one another. But who holds us accountable for the agreements that never get written down? What happens when those agreements include our family bonds themselves? In this little book of absolutely brutal poems, Jessica Lawson wraps up family, parenthood, grief, and abandonment in a narrative that renders the experience of family separation both catastrophic and intimate. Through poems written as a series of cold, formal legal documents, this chapb