Grief's Alphabet by Carrie Etter #Icelandicpoetry " —Stefania Heim

" —Stefania Heim

eloquent and adventurous

Frances Horovitz’s poems have the clarity of ballad and the power of myth

Carefully choreographed

Grief's Alphabet by Carrie Etter #Icelandicpoetry " —Stefania HeimGriefs Alphabet by Carrie Etter is a shattering elegy for the poets mother, opening a pathway through grief in spite of the impossible task of expressing such a loss. Beginning both chronologically and alphabetically, the collection moves from early life with the narrators adoption, through to the mothers unexpected death and the banal yet painful tasks which follow, such as sorting clothes and arranging the funeral. The final section deals with life