Esther Altshul Helfgott

Listening to Mozart: Poems of Alzheimer's Esther Altshul Helfgott

Following her moving memoir, Dear Alzheimer?s, about living with the gradual loss of her husband, Esther Altshul Helfgott?s Listening to Mozart is a fitting and lovely companion collection that both takes the reader through her grieving and celebrates the husband she?s lost. From the new widow?s first angry bewilderment (you must be busy/ ?what are you doing/that?s so important) to her gradual coming to terms, she vividly conveys how alive the dead are after they?ve left us with their enormous absence. ?Anne Pitkin