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
Publisher: Autumn House Press
Published: 10/13/2026
Pages: 132
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781637681244
ISBN10: 1637681240
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Hispanic & Latino
- Poetry | Women Authors
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Family

About the Author
Poet, essayist, and visual artist, Laurie Ann Guerrero was born and raised in the Southside of San Antonio. Poet Laureate of San Antonio (2014-16) and Texas (2016-2017), her collections include Babies under the Skin (Panhandler, 2008), A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying (University of Notre Dame Press, 2013), A Crown for Gumecindo--a collaboration with visual artist, Maceo Montoya (Aztlan Libre Press, 2015), and I Have Eaten the Rattlesnake: New & Selected Poems (TCU Press, 2021). Guerrero holds degrees from Smith College and Drew University. She is an Associate Professor and the Writer-in-Residence at Texas A&M University-San Antonio.