Diary of a Proletarian Seamstress Als enige kennisgeving In myth Herakles is an

In myth Herakles is an embodiment of manly violence who returns home after years of making war on enemies and monsters (his famous “Labors of Herakles”) to find he cannot adapt himself to a life of peacetime domesticity

The book also includes 'Sinking Feeling'

reminding us of a scene from Plato’s Phaedrus

imagination and dream and the outer so-called real world

and place—Cyprus

Diary of a Proletarian Seamstress Als enige kennisgeving In myth Herakles is anVictoria 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