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Impossible Things
About this book
Offering an intimate account of intergenerational grief, Miller Oberman's new collection of poetry, Impossible Things, explores his experiences as both a transgender child and father. Oberman weaves in passages from his own deceased father's unpublished memoir to engage with the mysterious drowning of his eldest brother, Joshua, at age two, a tragedy that cast a shadow over his childhood. He depicts his own youth and parenthood in the context of his father's trauma, employing queer and trans theory and experimental poetic forms to challenge and expand discourse around fatherhood and masculinity. Oberman moves beyond an attempt to solve the mystery of Joshua's death and interrogates how much we can ever know about our forebears or understand their impacts on our lives. Impossible Things offers a necessary intervention into the well-worn terrain of fatherhood/boyhood memoir and functions as a living elegy, communicating with the past, the dead, and the unknowable while speaking to the possibilities for healing intergenerational trauma.
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eBook ISBN
9781478060086Subtopic
PoetryTable of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Dedications
- Prologue: 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
- Twenty-three 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 XIV
- 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 XVIII
- Jewish Cento, 1957
- Epilogue: Mensch
- Memoir Cento
- Memoir Cento i
- Memoir Cento ii
- The Cake
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
