Grief's Alphabet by Carrie Etter #Sissay you called out the price

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and she is drawn to the conflicts and contradictions at the heart of all human intention and inquiry

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Grief's Alphabet by Carrie Etter #Sissay you called out the priceGriefs 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