Poetry. Gay/Lesbian studies. Optimistic, searching, and unforgiving, UNRAVELING is arranged around a central narrative of shifting identities, as the book's speaker leaves a heterosexual marriage and sets off on an exploration of her own sexuality and difficulties and joys of single working motherhood. "Jenny Factor is a poet with perfect pitch in her mother tongue...a poet who is not afraid to dare the extravagant gesture (the fifteen-sonnet heroic crown) or to focus on the minuscule event (a toddler playing trucks in the lamplight). And in either direction, she finds the unexpected, the as-yet-unsaid, the memorable: words and lines which will resonate in the reader's mind after the book is shut, and before it's picked up again, as it will be"--Marilyn Hacker.