Mother/land
MOTHER/LAND 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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Every now and then I come across a work that speaks to me on a more personal level as a mother and woman of Hispanic ancestry. At the same time, I find myself reviewing a piece of art for which I am under-qualified to analyze. Mother/land by Ananda Lima is that piece of art. In this poetry collection, the author details her experiences as an immigrant from Brazil assimilating to life in her new land and raising an American child. In many different ways she explores how to call a place home while maintaining such a strong piece of her identity, and examining the implications of this environment for her son.
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