Document <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><?xml-model href="http://www.tei-c.org/release/xml/tei/custom/schema/relaxng/tei_all.rng" type="application/xml" schematypens="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BucknellDSC/heresies/main/CSS/heresies_cwrc.css"?><TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"> <teiHeader> <fileDesc> <titleStmt> <title>Sewing With My Great-Aunt Leonie Amestoy</title> <author>Suzanne Noguere</author> <respStmt> <persName>Haley Beardsley</persName> <resp>Editor (2021- Present)</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <persName>Lyndon Beier</persName> <resp>Editor (2023-Present)</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <persName>Erica Delsandro</persName> <resp>Investigator, editor</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <persName>Mia DeRoco</persName> <resp>Editor (2023-Present)</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <persName>Margaret Hunter</persName> <resp>Editor (2021-Present)</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <persName>Diane Jakacki</persName> <resp>Invesigator, encoder</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <persName>Sophie McQuaide</persName> <resp>Editor (2021-2023)</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <persName>Olivia Martin</persName> <resp>Editor, encoder (2021)</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <persName>Zoha Nadeer</persName> <resp>Editor (2022-Present)</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <persName>Bri Perea</persName> <resp>Editor (2022-23)</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <persName>Carrie Pirmann</persName> <resp>HTR editor, encoder (2023-Present)</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <persName>Ricky Rodriguez</persName> <resp>Editor (2022-2023)</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <persName>Roger Rothman</persName> <resp>Investigator, editor</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <persName>Kaitlyn Segreti</persName> <resp>Editor (2021-Present)</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <persName>Maggie Smith</persName> <resp>Editor (2021-Present)</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <persName>Maya Wadhwa</persName> <resp>Editor (2021-2023)</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <persName>Lucy Wadswoth</persName> <resp>Editor (2022-Present)</resp> </respStmt> <respStmt> <persName>Anna Marie Wingard</persName> <resp>Editor (2023-Present)</resp> </respStmt> <funder>Bucknell University Humanities Center</funder> <funder>Bucknell University Office of Undergraduate Research</funder> <funder>The Mellon Foundation</funder> <funder>National Endowment for the Humanities</funder> </titleStmt> <publicationStmt> <distributor> <name>Bucknell University</name> <address> <street>One Dent Drive</street> <settlement>Lewisburg</settlement> <region>Pennsylvania</region> <postCode>17837</postCode> </address> </distributor> <availability> <licence>Bucknell Heresies Project: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)</licence> <licence>Heresies journal: © Heresies Collective</licence> </availability> </publicationStmt> <sourceDesc> <biblStruct> <analytic> <title>[ISSUE TITLE]</title> </analytic> <monogr> <imprint> <publisher>HERESIES: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics</publisher> <pubPlace> <address> <name>Heresies</name> <postBox>P.O. 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Therefore \"genesis\" may be referring to the first book of The Bible's first five books. " }, "as:generator": { "@id": "https://leaf.bucknell.edu", "@type": "as:Application", "rdfs:label": "LEAF-Writer", "schema:url": "https://leaf-writer.lincsproject.ca/", "schema:softwareVersion": "3.5.0" } }]]> </rdf:Description> </rdf:RDF></xenoData></teiHeader> <text> <body> <pb facs="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BucknellDSC/heresies/main/issue04/images/Heresies_04_073.jpg" n="73" xml:id="img_0073"/> <div cert="high" org="composite" part="Y" sample="initial" type="essay" xml:space="default"> <head><title>Sewing With My Great-Aunt Leonie Amestoy</title></head> <byline> <persName>Suzanne Noguere</persName></byline> <lg> <l>Today you bend over <rs key="organdy" ref="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2029789">organdy</rs></l> <l>In organic toil, working the small red squares</l> <l>The way in your youth old men bent over earth</l> <l>And still coaxed wheat and corn from the <placeName key="Basque Country" ref="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q47588">Basque</placeName> soil.</l> <l>You fold the cloth, then slowly roll the edges</l> <l>Until rose petals bloom in your hands,</l> <l>Vivified by the stitch that shirs them softly</l> <l>The way the skin is shirred around your eyes.</l> </lg> <lg> <l>Crooked like a mitered edge, your index finger</l> <l>At rest stays poised above an unseen needle.</l> <l>Indoors, surrounded by left-over silk</l> <l>And wool, we rearrange the rainbow’s spectrum,</l> <l>Sorting the tools of your trade–bright spools of thread,</l> <l>Small silver thimbles, scissors, and the red</l> <l>Pincushions studded with glass-headed pins-</l> <l>As we need them, laboring in your field.</l> </lg> <lg> <l>We overlap the petals; roses thrive</l> <l>Under the lamplight in your wintry room.</l> <l>Next you teach me the genesis<note>Below it is mentioned that "the Virgin" may have relation to the teachings of Christianity. Therefore "genesis" may be referring to the first book of The Bible's first five books. </note> of frogs:</l> <l>We turn the tubing and vivid cloth emerges</l> <l>Out of itself like a snake sloughing its skin;</l> <l>You whorl it tightly and I think this is</l> <l>How your great spirit must exist in you</l> <l>Compactly, coiled like a spring.</l> </lg> <lg> <l>From what misfortune could you not recover</l> <l>Who as a child made the pilgrimage</l> <l>To <placeName key="Lourdes" ref="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3327" cert="medium">Lourdes</placeName>, eastward through the low green mountains</l> <l>Of your own land? You say the Virgin<note type="scholarNote">likely a reference to the Mother Mary, or Virgin Mother, of Christian theology </note> slept</l> <l>And say it lightly as if you had not been</l> <l>Bitterly born to your mother’s shame</l> <l>In an age when no one could tell you of</l> <l>The tiny gland that kept you tiny.</l> </lg> <lg> <l>Self-taught and independent by your own</l> <l>Inventions, you make buttons out of thread,</l> <l>Handbags with pockets hidden within pockets,</l> <l>And dresses that unfold as if corollas</l> <l>With minute parts inside. You instruct me in</l> <l>Techniques as secret as nature’s, my fingers</l> <l>Sure when yours are, atremble when yours falter</l> <l>Those sharp days when you feel more and more mortal.</l> </lg> </div> </body> <back> <p>Suzanne Noguere lives in <placeName key="New York City" ref="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60">New York City</placeName>.</p> </back> </text> </TEI> Document Download Image - Name Sewing With My Great-Aunt Leonie Amestoy Object Type XML document Related Item No
