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Alterations
Alterations examines the grief of losing an unborn twin child through a lens of alteration and adaptation, connecting narratives of textiles and texts--from spacesuits and burial garments to Emily Dickinson's poetic fragments and GOODNIGHT MOON--and the unexpected garments rendered from and contained within personal tragedy. The existence of one is a constant reminder of the other.
Using Winrock's own lexicon of variant sentences, Alterations threads together seemingly disparate narrative themes of text and textile into an elliptical and lyric examination of the invisibility of women's labor and maternal grief.
Alterations is part of the Undelivered Lectures series from Transit Books.
Using Winrock's own lexicon of variant sentences, Alterations threads together seemingly disparate narrative themes of text and textile into an elliptical and lyric examination of the invisibility of women's labor and maternal grief.
Alterations is part of the Undelivered Lectures series from Transit Books.
Book Details
- Publisher: Transit Books
- Publish Date: May 6th, 2025
- Pages: NA
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00lb
- EAN: 9798893389012
- Categories: • Women Authors• Subjects & Themes - Women• Women
About the Author
Winrock, Cori: - Cori A. Winrock is a poet and multimedia essayist/artist. Her second collection of poetry, Little Envelope of Earth Conditions (2020), was awarded Editor's Choice for the Alice James Books Prize. Her debut book, This Coalition of Bones (Kore Press), received the Freund Prize for a first collection. Winrock holds a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Utah where she was a 2019-2020 Tanner Humanities Fellow. Formerly an Assistant Professor at Cleveland Institute of Art, she recently joined the Creative Writing faculty at Western Washington University where she teaches hybrid forms and other experimental literature classes.
Praise for this book
"This heartbreaking, unusual, and precise collection [Little Envelope of Earth Conditions] treats grief with all the complexity it deserves." --Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"This is a heart-breaking, beautiful book, yes. But also one in which grief lights the page, as the poet tells us: 'What is grief but a syllable that accumulates / us of our gravity.' Having known loss, what does she learn? What knowledge is shared here? Knowledge is in the questions. Winrock is a brilliant lyric poet who shares: all we say, we say in a body. Nothing can be said outside it. What is the lyric poet doing in this book? She grieves and sings. She whispers about mothers, about daughters, she composes elegies, pastorals. 'Our bodies have been exposed to all sorts of things. // The stars don't believe in weeping us / to sleep.' This knowledge is desolate, but it frees us: 'our bodies pinned open into the last kind blues.' This is the last frontier: 'Listen, listen-- /every time I've tried to bring our baby back // to the ground in our old city.' I love the duality of this voice. Its tenderness and its ringing grief." --Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa