RaveLos Angeles Review of BooksLópez Medin’s commitment to recovering remnants of the past results in a moving suite of prose poems and lineated poems, along with photos and drawings — all intricately tracing her own matrilineage, domestic work, and disability ... For López Medin, assembling and sewing together scraps mirrors the efforts of comprehending bits and pieces of language ... What is unspoken and unheard between generations takes root in the poems, and the poet yearns for what is encrypted and what might be unearthed ... Sewing and its ritualistic labor function nimbly in many of these poems as a figure for poetic fabrication. Calling on the reader’s participation and understanding, López Medin sometimes incorporates a visual representation of stitches by employing rows of em dashes to divide various sections of a poem.
