Poetic autoethnography: sonnets for both dads

Abstract

ABSTRACT The author uses poetic-autoethnography to share the complexities of her personal emotional experience as a perpetual griever with on-going sorrow about the traumatic loss of both her fathers. She writes sonnets to memorialize the loss that triggers memories. Poetic-autoethnography becomes therapeutic as she shares how her life has been interrupted by the cultural and social phenomena of losing significant parental figures.