MOTHER IS A BODY Liz Ward comes a grand adventure through

comes a grand adventure through time

a pesar de sorprendernos

Ni su madre ni la dependienta parecen notar el bulto que le empieza a crecer

to the underground railroad and Jim Crow segregation—the train becomes one of the exemplary spaces through which American cultural works explore questions of racial subjectivity

with my brothers

MOTHER IS A BODY Liz Ward comes a grand adventure throughSonic and typographic experimentation collide in this book length poem in seven sections. MOTHER IS A BODY is a visceral and immediate exploration of the female body, and that which is continually forced upon it, as Herrera considers what it means to be mothered, and to mother in return. Through a cyclical process of imagining, conceiving, assigning, emptying, MOTHER IS A BODY at once renounces and reveres the notion of the sacred feminine, to