MOTHER IS A BODY Liz Ward The fundamentally ecological dimension of

The fundamentally ecological dimension of this message confers on San art its universality and contemporary relevance

possessing the gift of making pictures

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

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

they plowed the muddy fields so that rice could be planted

MOTHER IS A BODY Liz Ward The fundamentally ecological dimension ofSonic 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