The Mother Journal

By Susan Cataldo

Poetry. Owing something to the New York School-influenced writing of contemporaries such as Alice Notley and Bernadette Mayer, Susan Cataldo's THE MOTHER JOURNAL is at the same time a wholly original approach, a subtle and intertwined investigation of both the death of her mother in 1961 (during Cataldo's early youth) and her own motherhood, which began at the tender age of fifteen. The long title poem takes up much of the book, and few poems can equal it in intensity or spare lyricism. Long associated with The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery, Cataldo discovered she had ovarian cancer in 1998 and died of it three years later, in the Bronx, on April 25, 2001.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916382370
• ISBN13: 9780916382377
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Telephone Books
• Length: 74 Pages