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.
PRAISE:
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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