<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Hospice&nbsp;</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>catalogs a decade in the poet's life marked by becoming a mother while supporting a terminally ill parent reckoning with the intimate work of caregiving. Formal explorations grapple with the twinned dynamics of mothering and motherlessness. Throughout the collection&nbsp;</span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Molly Akin</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>&nbsp;considers how we trace our origins and inheritance within the imperfections of memory.&nbsp;</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Hospice&nbsp;</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>employs precise and deliberate syntax to examine universally human and deeply personal themes.</span></p><p></p><p></p>