Diary of a Proletarian Seamstress F. van Dixhoorn

Diary of a Proletarian Seamstress F. van DixhoornVictoria Guerrero Peirano This book of threads binds the autobiographical and the bureaucratic, the maternal body and the factory floor. In fierce and tender lines, contemporary Peruvian poet Victoria Guerrero Peirano pierces intergenerational silences with erupting screams. Three scenes probe the precarity of textile lineages tensioned against patriarchal violence and neoliberal industrial orders. I leave words, a daughter speaks in the face of her

and take the assault course of form by cranking out the odd villanelle

to explore what others have seen and experienced of the world

"It comes down to a few things

een reiken naar het onbekende

a Greek myth retold

and a history of letters that thinks through a mode of writing from the bottom

autobiography

Anedda reminds us that history is plural and that our perspectives

Menige aanvang wordt doorkruist door geweld en onderdrukking en daar komt vandaag de klimaatcrisis nog bij

die van de geliefde

collages and sketches on pages

Ingmar Heytze schrijft ze een brief in zijn nieuwe bundel Postkamer