To Linger on Hot Coals : Collected Poetic Works from Grieving Women Writers

Cole, Stephanie Paige; Bayly, Catherine

ISBN 10: 1628575654 / ISBN 13: 9781628575651

Published by Strategic Book Publishing, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: To Linger on Hot Coals : Collected Poetic Works from Grieving Women Writers
• Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1628575654
• ISBN 13: 9781628575651
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

    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 hearts and minds of those mothers who've lost.

    to linger on hot coals features a beautiful and painfully honest foreword by MISS founder, Joanne Cacciatore PhD, and an introduction written by the authors.  Those writings will hopefully serve as a guide to the reader, as she or he navigates grief's roiling and ever changing waters.

About the Author

Stephanie Paige Cole has been writing ever since she learned how to spell, but never as ferociously as after the death of her firstborn child in January 2007.  Born in New York City, Stephanie now resides among the farms of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania with her husband and their three sweet sons.  She works at an art gallery as a writer and occasionally exhibits her own paintings, sculptures and photography.  Stephanie is the author of Still: a collection of honest artwork & writings from the heart of a grieving mother and the founder of Sweet Pea Project, a nonprofit organization that offers comfort, support and gentle guidance to families who have experienced the death of a baby.

Catherine Bayly has hungrily read and written poems all her life.  And writing became her constant companion and vessel after her first daughter, Sophie, was stillborn on Halloween of 2005.  Since then, Catherine has published poetry, led grief writing workshops, and gotten her MA in literature.  While her work has grown and changed tremendously, her children have stayed constantly at its center.  Catherine now teaches writing at several lovely colleges in Maryland, where she lives with her husband and daughters.  Her work can be found in Exhale (formerly), Still Standing, and Stealing Time, as well as on her occasional blog, The Lifespan of Butterflies.