Imagined Sons

In 'Imagined Sons', poet Carrie Etter reflects on the experience of a birthmother who gave up her son for adoption when she was 17. In a series of haunting, psalm-like prose poems of enormous courage 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 Birthmothers Confessions return to repeated, harrowing questions that yield different answers at different moments.