Grief's Alphabet by Carrie Etter Liz Fincham add up to an oblique

add up to an oblique but compelling document of lives and times

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Grief's Alphabet by Carrie Etter Liz Fincham add up to an obliqueGriefs 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