| Title | : | to linger on hot coals: collected poetic works from grieving women writers |
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (193 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1628575654 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 140 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-07 |
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to linger on hot coals was born from the imaginations and lives of two mothers. Artist writer, Stephanie Paige Cole, and poet-teacher, Catherine Bayly, crafted their brain child in memory of their first daughters, Madeline and Sophie. Both girls were stillborn at full term, and the experience of mothering their memories became paramount in the writing and daily lives of their mothers. As the years passed, the need to mother them has changed, but the desire to keep them at the center of Cole and Bayly's work has remained. This book represents a multitude of women's voices, at various stages of grief-mothering. Within the pages you'll find cerebral iterations of the infinite ripple effects of grief and the raw visceral howls of grief's earliest days. Cole and Bayly hope the book will take part in an ongoing complex conversation about motherhood and work--and that it will speak to the h
Editorial : "Raw, evocative, compelling. A heartfelt tumble down the rabbit hole of child loss into a world that is frequently hidden, often taboo but ultimately needs to be exposed. to linger on hot coals shines a light on the reality of the "other" family tree - the one with gnarled tree trunks and missing branches that so many mothers invisibly carry every day. A collective of hearts and souls that beat even in the ashes, and breathe life into the unseen."
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