{"product_id":"redwork","title":"Redwork","description":"\u003cb\u003eLaurie Ann Guerrero's expansive fifth poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eREDWORK\u003c\/i\u003e, is a meditation on a woman's role in work and family, ancestral wisdom, and the subversive nature of female art.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInterwoven 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eREDWORK\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Laurie Ann Guerrero","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44515976282154,"sku":"9781637681244","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/imageloader_3bd06904-047f-4da0-a84d-afa6133fc207.jpg?v=1782706338","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/redwork","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}