Description

Fonograf Editions, paperback

Publication Date: November 9, 2021

Publisher Marketing:Sonic 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 illustrate mother in her many actualities a complex figure, at times unsightly, that both is and isnt what we most often ascribe to her as an archetype of the divine.

Overseen by Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari, Clarice Lispector, Miriam Medrez, and Yoko Ono, Herrera pieces together material excavated from within Instagrams endless scroll, Wikipedias citations, and even the U.S. Department of Agricultures archives to create a layered inscription musically, emotionally, philosophically to the idea of motherhood, and the children she never had.