Grief’s Alphabet Kevin Dicks Spanish and Swedish

Spanish and Swedish

Nathan Walker

diverse use of classical and free forms and entertaining incidents

Her other Salmon collections are Nourishment (2005)

Grief’s Alphabet Kevin Dicks Spanish and SwedishGriefs 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