Grief's Alphabet by Carrie Etter #Icelandicpoetry and identity crises

and identity crises

Gatwood asks: How does one grow from a girl to a woman in a world wracked by violence

Carefully choreographed

and the one place you cannot go

Grief's Alphabet by Carrie Etter #Icelandicpoetry and identity crisesGriefs 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