Loose Threads

Stitch by monostich, “Loose Threads” pulls at the warp and weft of culture, history, and language to show us where identity and poetry are formed. Dora Prieto tests the integrity of poetry to hold what it promises against the gales of migration, gender, race, climate change, and the nation. Through thrilling leaps of association and rhetoric, Prieto’s lines move like light through fibre-optic cables, connecting family and memory, belonging and alienation, violence and joy. These poems are borderless, wry, and yet deadly serious.