Abstract
Based on the analysis of some poems that recover the experience of the weaving and sewing workers - among them, an “inexistent” poem, an anonymous poem, "Mulher proletária" by Jorge de Lima, the book Diario de una costurera proletaria by Victoria Guerrero Peirano and the sequence “Fontes de renda” by Lu Menezes - this paper intends to highlight the importance of the poetic device and the particular knowledge of sewing workers as epistemological and political tools. Both their knowledge and their practices allow us to reflect on the world of work, affectivity and the formation of subjectivities, bringing together heterogeneous and distant times and circumstances, turning elements considered “unimportant” into elements of “the greatest importance” in the political consciousness.
Keywords:
poetry; work; sewing; politics