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Receipt For Lost Words

Poems

Catherine Arnold author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bauhan (William L.),U.S.

Published:18th Mar '23

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Receipt for Lost Words, the 2022 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize winner, is a mother’s attempt to understand a world in which her child does not, cannot speak. It’s an accounting that Catherine Arnold renders in breathtakingly moving, spaced-apart phrases, little gasps of insight into a parent’s heartbreak, bafflement, and isolation. Catherine began to write these poems in response to her daughter’s mysterious loss of speech. She felt compelled to explore what had happened, to try to find a way to make it bearable. One poem became two, then three—before long, she’d produced a complete  manuscript. The collection went through many revisions, developing in surprising, sometimes painful ways. The poems are about loss, grief, joy, and love. They are about the myths and realities of maternal love;they’re an examination of language, its force and its limits.

ISBN: 9780872333727

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

104 pages