My Limbs a Cradle, my Whisper a Song
Cathy Gilbert
Belletristik / Lyrik, Dramatik
Beschreibung
My Limbs a Cradle, my Whisper a Song explores motherhood and loss through poems that delve into the difficulties of raising infant twins while losing a parent to dementia. The journey begins with the surprise of discovering a twin pregnancy and takes readers through the milestones of infants, the changing terrain of a spousal relationship, and the grief inherent in caring for a mother who is losing her faculties to dementia. Parent/child relationships reverse and transform as the poet learns how to mother through the slow loss of her own mother and her memories.
Kundenbewertungen
motherhood, domestic life, sandwich generation, grief, dementia, poetry, pregnancy, breastfeeding, loss, mental load, parenthood, infants, twins, caretaking, marriage, parent-child relationships, postpartum