Oz
by Nancy Eimers
"In Eimers’ Oz, the squared-off rooms of prose press against
the open-roofed, wall-less abodes of poems. Dollhouses, bomb shelters,
Cornell’s boxes — Eimers is fascinated by those fascinated with such
“contraption[s] of inner space.” Space managed and manageable. But around
such contraptions, one feels the larger uncontainable world lurking,
leering. From encapsulated space, a self sees out and gathers strength
to step out. This dance between estrangement and communion — it’s part
of how we survive; it’s the jittery way, these poems beautifully suggest,
we move toward compassion."
—Nance Van Winckel
"There is as true a feeling of consolation delivered by this book as
any I have read in recent years. Nancy Eimers makes a mirror out of our
tears, and then turns that mirror at an angle so that we can see what
lies hidden from our sight. Her poems answer Basho’s great question,
one of the essential questions of all lyric poetry: 'my neighbor — how
does he live, I wonder?' This is that rare book whose compassion is as
deep as its craft."
—David Rivard
Oz by Nancy Eimers
Carnegie Mellon University Press
Pub Date: 01/10/2011
Price: $15.95
Cover: Paper
ISBN: 978-0-88748-532-9