Receipt for Lost Words: Poems

By: Arnold, Catherine

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872333728
• ISBN13: 9780872333727
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Bauhan Pub
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.6" x 8.5"