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Show Wednesday, June 2, 1993 The Daily Utah Chronicle - Page Eleven Death's 'Destroying Angel' wits bookstores with new collection Destroying Angel Nancy Eimers Wesleyan University Press Price unavailable " You 're Gonna Die " Kim Salmon Most people, I suppose, tend to get a tad uncomfortable and squeamish when the topic of conversation turns from sports or politics to certain death. But I am not one of them. I am quite comfortable with this theme, as is poet Nancy Eimers. Destroying Angel, her first collection of poems, explores the notion of death and its inevitability. Like it or not, humans are finite creatures and although it may seem as if life may go on forever, it doesn't. Eimers' poems bring that point home not by means of fear but through stating serene truth. "In the little worldnot space Workshop I - Training the Advocate: The Pretrial Stage The goal of Workshop I is to cover all of the major facets of preparing for litigation and trial. Students will study the full range of pretrial litigation skills and practice all of the roles that lawyers typically perform before trial. BONORS LAW SOCIETY Course Topics Include; Arguing motions and taking depositions Using tangible evidence but timehangs over us all Unmoving a great haze of light. Then one night it's gone," she writes in a poem entitled Fourth of July. Such language imprints upon the mind just how brief life is. One moment a person is here, then the next minute, he or she is gone. Like Emily Dickinson, Eimers' poetry explores not 10-1- only death but human suffering crash, and the death-sme- ll seeped through the car, they said...I still think even the dead can't sleep as deeply, as recklessly as the living." The poem. Even the Dead Can't Sleep, reminded me of an event last year where some people were celebrating a at the Hilton friend's birthday Hotel. In drunken stupidity, one fellow decide to demonstrate his intelligence by leaping from a 10th floor balcony to an adjacent one. He missed and plummeted to his death. Other poems discuss nuclear weapons and their effects. The bombing of Hiroshima is a recurring topic in several of Eimars poems. The poem, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going, is a long brooding vision of the after effects of the atomic blast in Japan. To wit: "On the skin of some women, the burns had made patterns of flowers from the flowered material of their kimonos, dark flowers conducting heat to the skin... and the rubble buried ones screamed back formally, 'Help if you please!' The eyes of soldiers caught looking up for the first shy glimpse of this morning's had melted and streaked down their faces." Of course, not all of Eimers' poems brood on suffering and death. She sometimes waxes sentimental, as in Bad Love. "In the middle of nowhere any kind of love is better than no love." It is surprising to learn that Eimers is a relatively new B-s- author. This is her first book and it is refreshingly frank, bold and thought provoking. Aside from Dickinson, her poems may remind one of Mary Shelley or Anne Sexton. The latter poet's spirit is plain- ly visible in a poem called Black Angel. "Almost spread, her wings are caught one breath behind a lift into corrosive air." I have always viewed poetry as a device to evoke certain feelings or to paint a certain image in the mind. Modern poetry is usually pretentious, and full of pommid-flar- e, Workshop II 3 Credit I Irs. To register for any of the above Workshops, call Robert Koyen: 53 0760 eves. No prerequisites arc required - any interested student may enroll. 1 of Utah Chapter is not officially associated DISCLAIMER: The Honors Law Society-Universit- y with, nor receives any form of sponsorship trom, the Honors Program at the University ol Utah. Lolow dlo TOW to speond wamitt tow symrDmrDGGr );i r pi fur 1 Staff Members Wanted Feature Writers Photographers Apply Room 240 Union Cost $100.00 LA 101 Intro, to Law and the Legal System posity. Hopefully, if Nancy Eimers is any indication, this But whether you are a lover of poetry or a poetic lover, you will find Destroying Angel a great addition to your library. It makes for fine late night reading during a summer thunderstorm with your sweetheart by your side. Check it out. William D. Kinnear Training the Advocate: Pretrial Advocacy Cost S225 .00 self-indulge- nt will change. - LS AT Preparatory Workshop I 1993-9- 4 i Mock Trial Workshop I - Sat 2 am - SLCCRmN181 Cost $100.00 (Includes textbook and all course materials.) Starting Summer Quarter - June 19th and anguish; the notion that "people die a thousand times before their death." 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