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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.
"Guerrero has long been one of the best pure lyric poets of her generation, but here the prose poems, list poems, and hybrid pieces reveal another side of Guerrero as a processual poet, in conversation with a tradition of women poets and artists who restlessly re-embodied form, such as Gwendolyn Brooks, Emily Dickinson, and Louise Bourgeois." —The Latinx Project
"Laurie Ann Guerrero’s REDWORK is a book that’s simultaneously lyrical, tactile, visual, and inhabited by a voice that’s razor-sharp and finely honed. Like the most precise needlework, these poems thread their subject matters—birth, death, eating rattlesnakes, the violences of American life—into an Art that is moving, vivid, and transformative." —Matthew Olzmann, author of Constellation Route
“‘. . . Red of shock, and the red of love. . .’ writes Laurie Ann Guerrero, inviting the reader into the interior world of reproduction through verse and embroidery but also the process. REDWORK asks: Whether human or idea, how will I give birth? The answer: Embrace each step, stitch, skin cut, season, doubt, departure, and unexpected approach. Trust one day, you arrive. ¡Felicidades!” —Ana Castillo, author of My Book of the Dead"REDWORK reminds us that the seams of love for family, for soulmate, for self, are vital but precarious—comfortably tight one day, regrettably loose the next. And just as thread serves for mending, the vibrant language of her poems strengthens our resolve toward healing, and for learning to accept our weary, tattered hearts." —Rigoberto González, author of The Book of Ruin