Grief's Alphabet by Carrie Etter #Sissay yet suffused in retrospect with

yet suffused in retrospect with a longing for grace

you called out the price to me

antanaclasis

The Shadow Owner’s Companion

finding stories woven in girlhood’s faltering dance-steps

Grief's Alphabet by Carrie Etter #Sissay yet suffused in retrospect withGriefs 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