{"product_id":"guerrero-laurie-ann-redworkpb","title":"[10\/13\/26] Guerrero, Laurie Ann: Redwork","description":"\u003cp\u003eAutumn House Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: October 13, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45118185963543,"sku":"9781637681244","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/71O7GuQ6ISL._SL1500.jpg?v=1781818249","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/guerrero-laurie-ann-redworkpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}