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Impossible things / Miller Oberman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oberman, Miller, author.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 101 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "Impossible Things is a collection of poetry that offers an intimate and personal account of fatherhood, loss, grief, and family. The collection stages an impossible encounter between Miller Oberman and his late father, who spent his last years completing a manuscript on the drowning death of his first son, Joshua. In staging this encounter, Oberman provides excerpts from his father's manuscript alongside his own poetry, allowing for the emergence and study of difficult affects such as anxiety, anger, desire, and loss. Above all, the collection sits with and interrogates the capaciousness of "trans"-ness. Oberman traces the ways that transgenerational trauma, transmitted memory, and trans identity all operate together experientially and within the nexus of Oberman's family" -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Two Lunches with my Father
- All These Beloved Books
- Memoir I
- Joshua Was Gone
- Memoir II
- The Wind Is Loud
- Memoir III
- Memoir IIIi
- Memoir IIIii
- The Pool, 2019
- Memoir IV
- Proper Identification
- Joy
- "if this was a different kind of story id tell you about the sea"
- Memoir V
- Taharah
- Memoir VI
- Facts about Joshua's Death
- Memoir VII
- Dear Mr. Pennypacker
- Commas
- Joshua's Birthday
- Pottstown Mercury, 1972
- Memoir VIII
- Memoir IX
- Memoir IXi
- History of Fingers
- Odo
- Theory
- Phoenixville, 2020
- The Centaur
- Giant Bird
- Memoir X
- On Similes
- Comes With
- Two Photographs
- Memoir XI
- Memoir XII
- Memoir XIIi
- The Field
- you are a field of little
- Memoir XIII
- This and That at the Frick
- How to Sleep
- Memoir XV
- Memoir XVi
- Catskills Poem
- The Camels
- Memoir XVI
- Two Shabbats with Paul Celan
- Memoir XVII
- Northport
- Syntax, 2022
- Joanne Dies, 2017
- Jewish Cento, 1957
- Mensch
- Memoir Cento
- Memoir Cento i
- Memoir Cento ii
- The Cake.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Oberman, Miller. Impossible things.
- ISBN:
- 9781478060086
- 1478060085
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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