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Impossible things /

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 firs...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oberman, Miller (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, 2024.
Subjects:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ Studies / Transgender Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying.
Table of 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
  • Memoir XI
  • 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
  • Memoir XVII
  • Jewish Cento, 1957
  • Mensch
  • Memoir Cento
  • Memoir Cento i
  • Memoir Cento ii
  • The Cake.