to linger on hot coals: collected poetic works from grieving women writers

    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.