In Granny’s Memory: Poetic Inquiry of Women’s Embodied Lives, and the Inheritance of Care

This article seeks to continue unraveling the grandparent–grandchild relationship as an embodied, intergenerational process through which social and historical lives are carried forward. Using poetic inquiry, I attend to “bits and pieces” that connect a grandmother, mother, daughter, and granddaughter, not just as data to be collected, but also as moments the researcher inhabits through relational encounters. These fragments of memory surface unexpectedly, making generational continuity visible, felt, and unavoidable. Poetic representation is employed as both a method and memory practice, attending to how a grandmother’s stories continue to live on after death as embodied inheritances.