Book Review: Mother/land

 

Mother/land

by Ananda Lima

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OwnVoices  |  Poetry

OwnVoices 

Poetry

Pub Date 15 Oct 2021

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Mother/land was the winner of the 2020 Hudson Prize.  The collection of poetry is focused on the intersection of motherhood and immigration and its effects on a speaker’s relationship to place, others and self.

This book investigates the mutual and compounding complications of these two shifts in identity while examining legacy, history, ancestry, land, home, and language.

Mother/land is heavily focused on the latter, including formal experimentation with hybridity and polyvocality, combining English and Portuguese, interrogating translation and transforming traditional repeating poetic forms.

If you are looking for a collection of poetry written from the perspective of an immigrant Mother of an American child, Mother/land is the book for you.

I give Motherland five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!