Oz: Poems
Department
English
Document Type
Book
Files
Description
A broomstick horse, clay marbles, WWII tin fighter plane, Cold War dollhouse with bomb shelter, "all the toys are vanishing," says Nancy Eimers in Oz, her fourth collection of poetry. These poems offer a paradoxical, moving elegy of things we left--or that left us--behind, not just the toys that grow obsolete, but a lost cat, a name, a monarch wing, a melting glacier, all the children at Terezin--an "immensity" that "recedes so incrementally we can't-- / we just can't / put a human face on it." Eimers looks closely at what we lose and how we let go of it, sorrowfully or with secret relief, or some irresoluble hope of recovery.
Call number in WMU's library
PS3555.I46 O98 2011 (WMU Authors Collection)
ISBN
9780887485329
Publication Date
2011
Publisher
Carnegie Mellon University Press
City
Pittsburgh
Disciplines
Poetry
Recommended Citation
Eimers, Nancy, "Oz: Poems" (2011). All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors. 59.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/books/59