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Human Figures is the newest chapbook by Nancy Eimers, the author of four previous poetry collections, Oz, A Grammar to Waking, No Moon, and Destroying Angel. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and she has been the recipient of a Nation "Discovery" Award, a Whiting Writers Award, and two NEA Fellowships. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan. If you're interested in mannequins and disembodiment and culture and nature and ...

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 Terez n--an "immensity" that "recedes so incrementally ...

Time is the hour at which a pub closes, the moment we must put our pencils down, a way of paying later for something now. A Grammar to Waking explores moments we wake to the grammar of living time, what Virginia Woolf called "moments of being." In the drift of the present, of song in the throat of its bird and the verb in its sentence, the drift of loved one into memoir, of talk from the talker to the listener, how and where does meaning live?...

No Moon is a book of poems about the powers and misadventures of memory, about chancy intimacies and unquiet departures parceled out as time, loss, death-an almanac of forces that mystify and transform our everyday lives.