Impossible Things
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Impossible Things

  1. 96 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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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 Oberman weaves in passages from his own deceased father's unpublished memoir to engage with the mysterious drowning of his eldest brother, Joshua, at age two, a tragedy that cast a shadow over his childhood.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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Dedications
  4. Prologue: Two Lunches with my Father
  5. All These Beloved Books
  6. Memoir I
  7. Joshua Was Gone
  8. Memoir II
  9. The Wind Is Loud
  10. Memoir III
  11. Memoir IIIi
  12. Memoir IIIii
  13. The Pool, 2019
  14. Memoir IV
  15. Proper Identification
  16. Joy
  17. “if this was a different kind of story id tell you about the sea”
  18. Memoir V
  19. Taharah
  20. Memoir VI
  21. Twenty-three Facts about Joshua’s Death
  22. Memoir VII
  23. Dear Mr. Pennypacker
  24. Commas
  25. Joshua’s Birthday
  26. Pottstown Mercury, 1972
  27. Memoir VIII
  28. Memoir IX
  29. Memoir IXi
  30. History of Fingers
  31. Odo
  32. Theory
  33. Phoenixville, 2020
  34. The Centaur
  35. Giant Bird
  36. Memoir X
  37. On Similes
  38. Comes With
  39. Two Photographs
  40. Memoir XI
  41. Memoir XII
  42. Memoir XIIi
  43. The Field
  44. You Are a Field of Little
  45. Memoir XIII
  46. Memoir XIV
  47. This and That at the Frick
  48. How to Sleep
  49. Memoir XV
  50. Memoir XVi
  51. Catskills Poem
  52. The Camels
  53. Memoir XVI
  54. Two Shabbats with Paul Celan
  55. Memoir XVII
  56. Northport
  57. Syntax, 2022
  58. Joanne Dies, 2017
  59. Memoir XVIII
  60. Jewish Cento, 1957
  61. Epilogue: Mensch
  62. Memoir Cento
  63. Memoir Cento i
  64. Memoir Cento ii
  65. The Cake
  66. Notes
  67. Acknowledgments