Mother, Unboxed, by Catherine Maryse Anderson

Poetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

Mother, Unboxed flirts with the urgency of wrangling through the mother-daughter dynamic before it’s too late.This collection is the offspring of the arrival of a hermetically sealed box of 30+ journals, poems and manuscript drafts from her mother. Due to her mother’s advanced dementia, what was intended to be delivered posthumously arrived five years prior, setting in motion a much needed rebrand of the poet and her mother, of the journaler and her daughter.

Inspired by her mother’s previously unshared writings, this hybrid collection of poems and prose is at once the fulfilling of a promise to help her mother earn her rightful place in print, while simultaneously beginning to unravel some of the knotted up threads between them, using the power of the gifts her daughter never knew they shared. Mother, Unboxed invites the reader into the making of a new legacy through the healing, reflective, courageous and collaborative act of mother daughter poetics.

Maryse Haan Anderson's original, unpublished poetry and journal writing are woven into several pieces in the collection.

Catherine Maryse Anderson is a poet, playwright, essayist, presenter, educator, single mother and only daughter. Her poetry and art have appeared in Hip Mama, Paragon Press, The Tishman Review, Drunk Monkeys, Junto, SWIMM, Mom Egg Review, and Griffel most recently.