Widow's Walk, the book's centerpiece, charts the poet's journey through the stages of grief, from bleak moments of desolation to tenuous instants of acceptance.This widow's walk is full of . . . moments of great beauty.Vulnerable, bitter and courageous, Gilbert confronts grief directlyand endures.These visionary, brilliant poems merit every honor. They are in the realm of great art.Here in her intense and beautiful fifth collection, Sandra Gilbert gathers the poems she wrote in memory of her husband's unexpected and inexplicable death.