Redwork

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 "a 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 a celebration of the quiet revolutions of women around the world.

Author: Laurie Ann Guerrero
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Autumn House Press
Published: 10/13/2026
Series: Autumn House Press Poetry Prize
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781637681244