MOTHER IS A BODY Liz Ward "Waa'aka' was born when the

"Waa'aka' was born when the earth was soft and the waters were new

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

they plowed the muddy fields so that rice could be planted

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MOTHER IS A BODY Liz Ward "Waa'aka' was born when theSonic 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