Mother/land
Mother/land by Ananda Lima, published by Black Lawrence Press on October 15, 2021, is a poignant exploration of the intersection of motherhood and immigration. This 110-page collection delves into the complexities of identity, legacy, and the speaker’s relationship with place and self. Through a blend of English and Portuguese, Lima employs formal experimentation to interrogate themes of language and translation, creating a rich tapestry that reflects the immigrant experience.
Readers will find a nuanced examination of family dynamics, cultural heritage, and the emotional landscape of an immigrant mother raising an American child. The poems reveal the beauty and danger inherent in this duality, as well as the profound parental love that shapes the speaker’s journey. By addressing the challenges of adapting to a new homeland, Mother/land offers insights into the broader themes of emigration and identity, making it a significant contribution to the fields of biography, personal memoirs, and poetry.
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Mother/land, winner of the 2020 Hudson Prize, is focused on the intersection of motherhood and immigration and its effects on a speaker’s relationship to place, others and self. It investigates the mutual and compounding complications of these two shifts in identity while examining legacy, history, ancestry, land, home, and language. The collection 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. These poems from the perspective of an immigrant mother of an American child create a complex picture of the beauty, danger and parental love the speaker finds and the legacy she brings to her reluctant new motherland.
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