{"product_id":"alterations-9798893389012","title":"Alterations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;\u0026amp;#34;In the city where I was born there is a collective of women taking apart donated wedding dresses. Seam ripping and taking off lace, uprooting stitches and unstringing beads\u0026amp;#8212;one by one by hand in their spare time.\u0026amp;#34;\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;A collective of women gathers to painstakingly turn wedding dresses into burial garments for infants. \u0026amp;#8220;Like many collectives whose existence and skills might seem unfathomable, most of us won\u0026amp;#8217;t know about them until there is a need to know,\u0026amp;#8221; writes Winrock. It is when confronted with the loss of her own unborn twin child that Winrock learns of their transformative work and begins to create a garment herself\u0026amp;#8212;made of language. Threading together stories of textiles and texts, from the first space suits and the seamstresses who made them, to Emily Dickinson\u0026amp;#8217;s famous white dress, to the Steinian rhythms of \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Goodnight Moon\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;, Winrock constructs and reconstructs an essay that might begin to accommodate devastating loss. A work of process and possibility, \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Alterations\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; enacts the hidden labors of mourning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9798893389012\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cori Winrock","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50077521051898,"sku":"9798893389012","price":9.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/files\/9798893389012.jpg?v=1786796632","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/alterations-9798893389012","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}