Receipt for Lost Words Poems
“Receipt for Lost Words Poems” by Catherine Arnold, published by Bauhan Pub in 2023, is a poignant collection of poetry that delves into the complexities of a mother’s experience as she navigates her child’s inability to speak. This edition comprises 104 pages and is presented in English, offering readers a deeply personal exploration of heartbreak and isolation through Arnold’s carefully crafted verses.
In this collection, Arnold articulates her journey of understanding and coping with her daughter’s mysterious loss of speech, transforming her emotional turmoil into a series of reflective poems. Each piece serves as a testament to the themes of loss, grief, joy, and love, while also examining the power and limitations of language. Through her evocative and spaced-apart phrases, readers will find an intimate portrayal of maternal love and the challenges that accompany it, making this work a significant contribution to contemporary poetry.
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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.
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