Landsmoder, by the Salvadoran poet, historian, and performance artist Elena Salamanca, is a searing, and sometimes grotesque, exploration of the intersections between nationalism, dogma, patriarchy, and violence. Originally read aloud from the oldest standing monument in San Salvador's centro hist&243;oacute;rico, the performance poems in Landsmoder retool the laudatory pomp of patriotic ceremony to protest the weaponization of national myth as a mask for erasure, cruelty, and neglect at the hands of the state. This unflinching collection, whose title comes from a Norwegian word that Salamanca translates as madre de la patria - or &8220;mother of the nationhomelandfatherland&8221;&8212; is a work of feminist grief, rage, and irony populated with churning wombs, bloodied flags, and ratteboned she-wolves.