Elizabeth White-Olsen

Within a short period of time three people in White-Olsen’s family died starting with the suicide of her cousin. While the anguish of that was still fresh, it was followed by the death of her father and then her grandmother. The poems and block prints in this book record her experience during this season of grief. The sorrow, anger, and pathos of this season and its effects on the surviving members of her family are recorded in poems and block print portraits. The poems and prints are simple, accessible, direct, powerful, and painfully realistic.… (lisätietoja)