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 “the red thread ties me, like a vein, to all my mothers.” From...