Mother Sauce

These spare, deceptively simple poems tease the senses, excavating bliss and loss in equalmeasure. Deftly exploring divinity, family, and ancestral community, Gold grapples with what ismeans to be both motherless and childless, to center one's life on creating communion.Throughout this gorgeous collection, "She thinks about the connection between tending to andbeing tender and bows down before her verdant altar." Her work offers an unexpected feastafter deep grief -- "taffy-wrapped...
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These spare, deceptively simple poems tease the senses, excavating bliss and loss in equalmeasure. Deftly exploring divinity, family, and ancestral community, Gold grapples with what ismeans to be both motherless and childless, to center one's life on creating communion.Throughout this gorgeous collection, "She thinks about the connection between tending to andbeing tender and bows down before her verdant altar." Her work offers an unexpected feastafter deep grief -- "taffy-wrapped heartache" followed by "breasts large ripe halved andseeded." She reminds us that "salt makes sweet things sweeter." Mother Sauce is spiritualnourishment. (Barbara Schwartz, author of "Any Thriving Root" and co-author of "Nothing but Light") The book'stitle comes Escoffier's concept of the five "mother sauces" that form the basis of all Frenchcuisine, and upon which an endless variety of "daughter sauces" are created. This relationshipis a central theme in Gold's work: "As cook, God creates the mother sauces/and names them?"begins the story.