The Girls Who Went Away: Poems

Preface and Table of Contents

Ann Fessler interviewed women who surrendered their children for adoption, and then published the interviews, with context, in her book The Girls Who Went Away. These poems are based on those interviews. (Poetic license has been taken.)¹

1. You Should Look For Her.

2. He Stared At Me Like No One Ever Had.

3. I Was Compliant.

4. You might need time to think about all this.

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See also, Let Those Flatter Who Fear: American Independence in Verse; and Poetica Philosophica.

1. This page will be updated as the poems are published.