{"title":"Cori Winrock","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCori Winrock\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a compelling voice in contemporary \u003cem\u003ebiography and memoir\u003c\/em\u003e. Her work delves into the complexities of memory, identity, and transformation, inviting readers to explore intimate personal stories layered with emotional depth and insight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough thoughtful narrative and evocative prose, Winrock’s writing captures the nuances of change and self-discovery, making her books a reflective journey for anyone interested in the human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"alterations-by-cori-winrock-9798893389012","title":"Alterations","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"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—one by one by hand in their spare time.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA collective of women gathers to painstakingly turn wedding dresses into burial garments for infants. \"Like many collectives whose existence and skills might seem unfathomable, most of us won't know about them until there is a need to know,\" writes Winrock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt 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—made of language. Threading together stories of textiles and texts, from the first space suits and the seamstresses who made them, to Emily Dickinson's famous white dress, to the Steinian rhythms of \u003cem\u003eGoodnight Moon\u003c\/em\u003e, Winrock constructs and reconstructs an essay that might begin to accommodate devastating loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA work of process and possibility, \u003cem\u003eAlterations\u003c\/em\u003e enacts the hidden labours of mourning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47558896320748,"sku":"9798893389012","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9798893389012-alterations.jpg?v=1776919589"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/cori-winrock.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}