
Inlay with Nacre
Inlay with Nacre: The Names of Forgotten Women (2019) by Cindy Williams Gutiérrez. 2018 Willow Books Editor's Choice for Poetry 2022 Production Directed by Gemma Whelan 2016 Oregon Literary Fellowship. Poets & Writers Magazine 2014 Notable Debut Poet Finalist, 2019 International Latino Book Awards nominee Poet-dramatist Cindy Williams Gutiérrez explores the global oppression of women—and testifies to their resilience—in over 20 countries around the world. Based on real-life incidents ranging from Brazilian “honor killings” and Indian sati to Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries and “Mississippi appendectomies” to rape as a weapon during the Rwandan genocide, this poetry collection bears witness to the sociocultural forces that have waged war on women’s bodies, freedom, and humanity. Now, in the #MeToo era, these poems both underscore and expand the conversation on the diminishment of women, reverberating across all continents and through 43 centuries. Inlay with Nacre is herstory—the plig