2 Books Published by Saturnalia Books on AALBC — Book Cover Collage

Mother Body is an intersectional exploration of the 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.

Each poem of I Think I'm Ready to See Frank Ocean riffs on a Frank Ocean song, paying homage to the man but also investigating oceans, The Ocean, and the similarity between heartbreak and break beats by blending Frank Ocean's musical catalog with personal narrative and social critique. I Think I'm Ready to See Frank Ocean builds upon historicized representations of Ocean's career in ekphrasis, carefully examining the intent of each composition as a metaphoric parallel to Black American legibility.