Redwork by Laurie Ann Guerrero

Redwork

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Redwork

Autumn House Press

Redwork

by Laurie Ann Guerrero

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Laurie Ann Guerrero's expansive fifth poetry collection, REDWORK, is a meditation on a woman's role in work and family, ancestral wisdom, and the subversive nature of female art.

Interwoven with eight images of the author's intricate redwork embroidery--striking red thread on light textiles--these poems explore reproductive justice, violence, gender dynamics, internalized sexism, and mothers and mothering, bound by the belief that "the red thread ties me, like a vein, to all my mothers." From a paradigm-shifting slap at a Brownies troop meeting to eating a rattlesnake to a great-grandmother rising from her coffin, Guerrero's precise, visceral voice threads the imagery of embroidery through unexpected forms. Rhythmic stitches echo in her repetitions, leaving phrases that stay with the reader: "How quietly our trust began."

REDWORK is a love letter to the women who came before, a cry against gendered violence, and an elegy for the ways colonialism warps our lives.
Book Details
Publisher:
Autumn House Press
ISBN:
9781637681244
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
96
Authors:
Laurie Ann Guerrero
Published Date:
2026-10-13
Language:
English
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About Laurie Ann Guerrero

Appointed Poet Laureate of San Antonio in 2014 and Poet Laureate of Texas in 2016, Laurie Ann Guerrero is a Chicana poet from San Antonio who now serves as associate professor and writer-in-residence at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. She holds a BA from Smith College and an MFA from Drew University. A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying (University of Notre Dame Press, 2013), her debut collection, won the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. A Crown for Gumecindo (Aztlán Libre Press, 2015) won the Helen C. Smith Poetry Award, and I Have Eaten the Rattlesnake followed from TCU Press. She is a CantoMundo fellow, and a new collection, REDWORK, is forthcoming from Autumn House Press after winning its 2025 prize.

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