Two days, two thoughtful reviews of Imagined Sons--I'd love to get used to this. The latest is Patricia Debney's review at the new Shearsman Review. Here's a passage: "Etter’s fundamental gift throughout Imagined Sons is her deft
handling of tone; throughout, she employs the no-nonsense,
matter-of-fact darkness that so often permeates bad dreams and their
anxious attempts at normality. [...] It is a testament to the
poet’s delicacy, restraint and invention that as readers we don’t run
straight away from what, when stripped down, is so painful. Far from
setting these wonderings firmly out of our experience, Etter’s writing
compels and moves us: we too imagine the sons, and find there the
immutable and worthwhile fact of being alive."
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