“In this compelling extended elegy, Miller Oberman captures both the possible and Impossible Things of a young child’s death and its effect on a family. I’ve been an admirer of Miller’s poetry since I first read ‘Joshua Was Gone,’ a masterful and devastating poem that embodies the heart and craft of this deeply moving book. Honoring both what’s missing and what remains, Impossible Things is a stunning book you will want to read, re-read and keep close.”
-- Ellen Bass, author of Indigo
"Impossible Things is, at its heart, a book-length elegy—it endeavors to speak with the dead so that the writer might go on living. To do so, Oberman enacts a trans poetics that insists that an adequate description of everyday life requires admitting what is spectral, impossible, not (yet) properly named. Anyway, I love these poems. They are tender and funny and charmingly neurotic. They are hurt and hurting, but not moralizing. They surface and bear contraction. They make me, somehow, alive."
-- Cameron Awkward-Rich, author of The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment