Embroideries

By Burcu Şahin

"In Burcu Sahin's acclaimed poetry debut, Embroideries, poem-threads are using memory, fragments, and loss of meaning as a way of speaking. A daughter and mother sit together in a home, sewing all day and night. The two engage in an arduous form of labor that demands patience and meticulousness, while it is also a condition for companionship and trust. This first English-language translation, rendered in Jennifer Hayashida's incredibly perceptive translation, is sung without sentimentality: what gradually appears in these poems is a genealogy of laboring daughters and mothers who are also daughters - their care, political commitments, and loyalties. Through the dual concepts of sewing and language the poems account for women whose lives and solidarities have not been documented in official histories or institutions, but in stitches"--

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933959878
• ISBN13: 9781933959870
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Litmus Press
• Length: 120 Pages