Mother/land by Ananda Lima (English) Paperback Book

Description: Mother/land by Ananda Lima 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Ananda Lima is the author of Mother/land (Black Lawrence Press), winner of the Hudson Prize, and Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil (Tor Books). Her work has appeared in four chapbooks, including Amblyopia (Bull City Press), and publications such as The American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, Witness, and elsewhere. She has served as a mentor at the New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Program and currently serves as a Contributing Editor at Poets & Writers. She has an MA in Linguistics from UCLA and an MFA in Creative Writing in Fiction from Rutgers-Newark. Review There is so much unbridled joy and pained tenderness in Ananda Limas poetry. Inspired by the poet Nathaniel Mackey and the musician Caetano Veloso, her verse streams effortlessly down the page, plaiting English with Portuguese, as Lima sings of the thrills and terrors of her new life in America, the pleasures of motherhood, and what she inherited from her family. Her voice is singular and wise and fresh. I love the poems in this collection.-Cathy Park HongAnanda Limas Mother/land is as much a mothers grappling with how to raise her son amid the danger and violence of todays America as it is an investigation of a daughters inherited, migrant Brazilian past. Limas poetry has the rare power to let us feel and "know the terror" of the present moment, while reflecting on ancestry and passing on familial legacy to the next generation. Her poems arent afraid to "shout Im an American citizen " across borders and languages, while shattering the security of presumed identity and recognizing both the precarity and privilege of citizenship. Piercing and poignant, Limas voice and music stay with you, "undisturbed / by wind or water, there will always remain/ a footprint" guiding your way home.-Julia Kolchinsky DasbachIn Ananda Limas luminous debut, the cultural landscape stretches vertically, from the bustling US cities to the tropical waters of Brazil. English communes with Portuguese, shaping a language that is musical and enchanting, though not without tension. For this speaker, hard-hitting questions about homeland, nationality and citizenship persist, as does the search for home. Mother/land gives breath to the immigrants bittersweet songs about what is gained with migration and what is lost, what can be recovered and what will remain out of reach.-Rigoberto González Details ISBN1625570260 Publisher Black Lawrence Press Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1625570260 ISBN-13 9781625570260 Format Paperback Imprint Black Lawrence Press Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2021-10-15 NZ Release Date 2021-10-15 UK Release Date 2021-10-15 Author Ananda Lima DEWEY 811/.6 Audience General Place of Publication Watertown Pages 110 Publication Date 2021-10-01 US Release Date 2021-10-01 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:133550663;

Price: 30.92 AUD

Location: Melbourne

End Time: 2024-12-07T11:26:35.000Z

Shipping Cost: N/A AUD