Imagined Sons Robert Saxton and find unexpected moments of

and find unexpected moments of humour and buoyancy

What happened to all the old relationships

Fadhil al-Azzawi: Poems from Bedouins under an Alien Sky _with appreciation by Khaled Mattawa

and 'rinse and wring the ear' with their rare emotional intelligence and compassion

a tragic year in the history of post-communist Albania

Imagined Sons Robert Saxton and find unexpected moments ofIn 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 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 Catechisms return to repeated, harrowing questions that yield different answers at