For readers of adventurous, politically alert poetry, these border-crossing poems test what the lyric can hold.
“What does thread conduct?” In Blood Tejido, Dora Prieto blends poetry, textile practice, and lyric essay to trace a girlhood shaped by Colombia, Florida, rural Canada, and Mexico. Across three sections and recurring “Tejido*” sequences, this audacious debut collection braids aerial maps, embroidery, bilingual play, internet debris, and hybrid forms into poems alive with questions of gender, spirituality, technology, and inherited violence. Through monostich poems, lyric essays, and visual sequences, Prieto treats mapping and stitching as both material practice and ways of thinking.
Witty, erotically charged, and sharply alert to borders, brands, and the pressures of media language, these poems remain rooted equally in body and speech. By turns devotional and profane, tender and defiant, Prieto moves through bloodlines, labour, migration, and desire with formal restlessness and exacting intelligence, asking what can be mended, what resists repair, and how identity is made and unmade across generations. For readers of Jen Bervin, Ariana Reines, and Tommy Pico.
*Spanish for fabric, tissue, or weave
For readers of adventurous, politically alert poetry, these border-crossing poems test what the lyric can hold.
“What does thread conduct?” In Blood Tejido, Dora Prieto blends poetry, textile practice, and lyric essay to trace a girlhood shaped by Colombia, Florida, rural Canada, and Mexico. Across three sections and recurring “Tejido*” sequences, this audacious debut collection braids aerial maps, embroidery, bilingual play, internet debris, and hybrid forms into poems alive with questions of gender, spirituality, technology, and inherited violence. Through monostich poems, lyric essays, and visual sequences, Prieto treats mapping and stitching as both material practice and ways of thinking.
Witty, erotically charged, and sharply alert to borders, brands, and the pressures of media language, these poems remain rooted equally in body and speech. By turns devotional and profane, tender and defiant, Prieto moves through bloodlines, labour, migration, and desire with formal restlessness and exacting intelligence, asking what can be mended, what resists repair, and how identity is made and unmade across generations. For readers of Jen Bervin, Ariana Reines, and Tommy Pico.
*Spanish for fabric, tissue, or weave
| Published By | House of Anansi Press Inc — Apr 6, 2026 |
| Specifications | 96 pages | 5.75 in x 8 in |
| Written By |
DORA PRIETO is a Mexican-Canadian poet currently based in the Bay Area as a 2025–27 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Her co-translation of JAWS by Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza is forthcoming with Cardboard House Press (2026) and her work has appeared in Best New Poets 2025, Catapult, and Maisonneuve. She won the 2025 Bronwen Wallace Award for poetry and was longlisted for the 2024 CBC Poetry Prize. Prieto is also a member of El Mashup Collective, where she collaborates across poetry, translation, and experimental visual forms. www.doraprieto.com |
| Written By |
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DORA PRIETO is a Mexican-Canadian poet currently based in the Bay Area as a 2025–27 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Her co-translation of JAWS by Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza is forthcoming with Cardboard House Press (2026) and her work has appeared in Best New Poets 2025, Catapult, and Maisonneuve. She won the 2025 Bronwen Wallace Award for poetry and was longlisted for the 2024 CBC Poetry Prize. Prieto is also a member of El Mashup Collective, where she collaborates across poetry, translation, and experimental visual forms. www.doraprieto.com |