The Five Stages of Stuttering is a poetic exploration of the connection between Stuttering and grief.
And then the poetry begins..
The final stage of grief and Stuttering is acceptance and revision.
Sadness is on me for a little while.
I want [ ] peace, Cassie Holguin-pettinato writes.
The poet needs to go through all the Stages of grief-denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance-before she can finally begin to find her voice.
There is no grave to visit the living/Here.
Holguin-Pettinato\'s poetry is deeply rooted in place yet simultaneously estranged from it.
Snippets of a foreign language become bullets in times of war.
Stuttering is a form of disconnection from the original tongue.
And so I hid the sacred clown in me.
What if poetry itself is a form of disfluency commonly referred to as stuttering? I couldn\'t speak the language of my mother.
Her poems about family estrangement, chronic pain, divorce, postpartum depression, and unspoken traumas are interrupted with blockages and interjections.
The emotional pain of her words is exacerbated with every repetition.
I had to start where-where-where I left off, Cassie Holguin-pettinato writes.
A verbal paralysis.
It is an interruption of the flow of speaking.
Stuttering is a fluency disorder.
The Five Stages of Stuttering is a poetic exploration of the connection between Stuttering and grief
