The Mothers by Erika Eckart

Name: The Mothers by Erika Eckart
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How to keep a body alive? How to survive ? These fundamental questions are at the heart of Erika Eckart‘s new and powerful book. She answers these questions with love and anger and humor and a keen awareness of the natural and artistic and performative and mythological histories of reproduction, cannibalism, vanity, autism, and the many ways that bodies are constructed and disappeared amid the infinite number of universes that create and devour us. These wrenching and beautiful poems traffic in what it means to eat and be eaten, what it means to live amid the intimacies and violences of composition and decomposition, infections, unbearable pressures. This book is a beast and bestiary, a brutal and dazzling accomplishment.

–Daniel Borzutsky, author of The Performance of Becoming Human, winner of the National Book Award

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The Mothers

by Erika Eckart

Full-length, Paper

979-8-89990-261-1

2025

The prose poems of The Mothers are a simultaneous ode and elegy to mothering and being mothered(or sometimes grandmothered), to mothering stymied and heightened by scarcity and disability, mothering both more haunting and more beautiful than the “shortest, longest, so hard but you’ve got to love it right?” Using nature analogies and fairy tales tropes, these poems depict motherhood as the conservation of mass at all costs, motherhood when things do not go as planned, motherhood as a desperate attempt to feed and be fed, to eat and be eaten. #themothers #generationaltrauma #autism #scarcity #mothering #prosepoems

Erika Eckart is the author of the tyranny of heirlooms, a chapbook of interconnected prose poems (Sundress Publications, 2018). Her work has appeared in Agni, Quarter After Eight, Quick Fiction, Passages North, The Tampa Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Oak Park, IL where she mothers, writes, and teaches high school English.