“Vasectomy: An Incision in Parts” is an experimental poem that takes the scientific method for its structure, appropriating it to call out our arrogance in attempting to parcel out the body and nature into neat scientific formats, as well as to explore the unequal weight placed on the female body in terms of both reproduction and birth control.
This poem also uses playful rhyme to balance the bluntly scatological—menstruation, condoms, lactation–with the lyrical.
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Awarded a Sevens Foundation x Playboy grant.
Ana Maria Caballero (b. 1981) is a first-generation Colombian-American poet and artist. Her work explores how biology delimits our societal and cultural rites, ripping the veil off romanticised motherhood and questioning notions that package female sacrifice as a virtue. The speakers in her poems find their voice by navigating the intellectual and the every day, daring to name what’s left unsaid in that all-important space of the home. Her poems are moments of private rebellion made public.