Mother Body by Diamond Forde

Mother Body

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Mother Body

Saturnalia Books

Mother Body

by Diamond Forde

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Mother Body is an intersectional exploration of the trauma and agency held within a body defined by its potential to mother. As Mother Body unfolds, it tasks its reader to understand the expected and unexpected manifestations of motherhood, through menstruation and womb work, but also generational, societal, and literary mothering.

With a variety of forms and modes, these poems unpack the experiences of a fat, black woman's body while also manifesting joy, resistance, and celebration.
Book Details
Publisher:
Saturnalia Books
ISBN:
9781947817241
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
88
Authors:
Diamond Forde
Published Date:
2021-03-15
Language:
English
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African American & Black All Poetry Women Authors

About Diamond Forde

Diamond Forde holds a BA in English from the University of West Georgia. She also holds an MFA from the University of Alabama and a PhD in creative writing from Florida State University. Her doctoral work concentrated in African American poetics and fat studies. She is an assistant professor of English at North Carolina State University. Her debut, Mother Body, won Saturnalia Books' poetry prize, judged by Patricia Smith, and appeared in 2021; The Book of Alice won the 2025 James Laughlin Award, which the Academy of American Poets gives for a second collection, and came from Scribner in 2026. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina.

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