Spelling the World Backwards

by Lois Marie Harrod

Spelling the World Backwards is a poignant account of a father dying from Alzheimer's disease and a mother's caretaking. Accessible narrative poems tell the story,though not in chronological order, of the father and a mother, their life together, their daughters and his dying--that slow pouring out of grief which accompanies Alzheimer's. Harrod uses Alzheimer's to explore the interrelationships of memory, loss and art in her lucid, well-wrought poems, which celebrate a father's life.

128 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2000