{"id":1138,"date":"2024-04-16T13:45:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T13:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2024-04-16T13:45:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T13:45:44","slug":"cathy-gilbert-05-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/2024\/04\/16\/cathy-gilbert-05-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Cathy Gilbert &#8217;05"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cathy Gilbert &#8217;05\u00a0<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>My Limbs a Cradle, my Whisper a Song<\/em> explores motherhood and loss through poems that reveal the bittersweet truths of raising infants and the devastation of losing a parent to dementia. Whether contemplating the stars, stirring soup at the stove, watching a child press their feet to the floor and rise, or stumbling over a mother\u2019s inability to recognize her own daughter, these poems focus on small moments in order to stay grounded through great upheaval. Parent\/child relationships reverse and transform as the poet learns how to mother through the slow loss of her own mother and her memories.<\/p>\n<p>The book is currently up for advanced sales through June 14th. You can learn more about it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.finishinglinepress.com\/product\/my-limbs-a-cradle-my-whisper-a-song-by-cathy-gilbert\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1139\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/files\/2024\/04\/GILBERT-CATHY-WEB-REVISED-600x600-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/files\/2024\/04\/GILBERT-CATHY-WEB-REVISED-600x600-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/files\/2024\/04\/GILBERT-CATHY-WEB-REVISED-600x600-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/files\/2024\/04\/GILBERT-CATHY-WEB-REVISED-600x600-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy Gilbert &#8217;05\u00a0&#8216;s My Limbs a Cradle, my Whisper a Song explores motherhood and loss through poems that reveal the bittersweet truths of raising infants and the devastation of losing a parent to dementia. Whether contemplating the stars, stirring soup &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/2024\/04\/16\/cathy-gilbert-05-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1140,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2005classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}