Las trabajadoras

A book in deliberately uneven parts that moves between poem and essay, verse and prose, to honour women's work, beginning with the poet's grandmother, aunt, mother and sisters, who earned their living as typists and in garment workshops. It takes the vocabulary of sewing and the typewriter to question the mechanical, domestic and automated labour assigned to women, typist, seamstress, carer, mother, a body that works without rest. Learning the keyboard at fourteen is remembered as a way out; the textile industry is attacked for what it does to the bodies that make our clothes; and the book ends with a speculative fable dedicated to the mothers who search for the disappeared, imagining how life might return, woven with industrial waste, after the world ends.

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About the book

Form

Poetry

First published

2024 by Heredad

Author's age

54 when first published