Imagined Sons

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"In Imagined Sons Carrie Etter reflects on the experience of a birthmother who gave up her son when she was seventeen. In a series of haunting, psalm-like prose poems of enormous c ourage and insight, she describes possible encounters with this son now in his late teens, expressing how ‘sometimes the melancholy arrives before the remembering’. The series of ‘Birthmother’s Confessions’ return to repeated, harrowing questions that yield different answers at different moments. This quite extraordinary book by a writer of great imagistic power and skill (‘hair the dark red of a nectarine pit’) leaves a mark on the reader which is ineradicable. These are poems of the utmost importance." – Bernard O’Donoghue Show more