Eileen Tabios has reviewed Imagined Sons at her poetry review site, Galatea Resurrects. Here's a passage: "But
Imagined Sons is also important for
showing how craft allows for the effective portrayal of a loss so expansive it
could easily wriggle out of control into poetic “laxness” (for lack of a better
word; I have read a lot of poems by those touched by orphanhood and/or adoption
and many simply sag under the weight of the topic). In this sense, too, Etter was wise in
choosing the prose poem whose form allows the suppleness required for such a
fraught topic.
Here’s
another example from a book that deserves to be read in its entirety—this
example reveals the utter fearlessness of Carrie Etter (whose lack of timidity
here honors Poetry), and how, sadly, the downside of not knowing is that one
can imagine anything [...]."
You can read the whole review here.
You can read the whole review here.
