Leave your family peace of mind with this new approach to wills and estates

Whenever Elizabeth Arnold tells people her specialty, they usually share their own family dilemmas. Maybe Dad left behind a misguided or inadequate will. Maybe Aunt Sue nabbed the vase that wasn't in Grandma's will and Aunt Pat hasn't spoken a kind word to her since. Maybe Sis can't decide who should get the kids in case of a tragedy, so she doesn't have any will at all. Such tales of woe have nothing to do with legal or tax problems. The real issues behind wills gone wrong--or wills that never get off the...

Poetry. LIFE is Elizabeth Arnold's fourth volume of poems. John Palattella has written of her poetry in The Nation "Elemental and unsparing, quiet and startling, Arnold's supple syntax is a source of gravity and vertigo. It is an acute expression of a mind's awareness of the tragedy of effacement: in burning through it, we gain a keener sense of our predicament."