Jay Hopler

Still Life -- Jay Hopler, Hardcover

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Confronted with a terminal cancer diagnosis, Jay Hopler--author of the National Book Award-finalist The Abridged History of Rainfall--got to work. The result of that labor is Still Life, a collection of poems that are heartbreaking, terrifying, and deeply, darkly hilarious. In an attempt to find meaning in a life ending right before his eyes, Hopler squares off against monsters real and imagined, personal and historical, and tries not to flinch. This work is no elegy; it's a testament to courage, love, compassion, and the fierceness of the human heart. It's a violently funny but playfully serious fulfillment of what Arseny Tarkovsky called the fundamental purpose of art: a way to prepare for death, be it far in the future or very near at hand.

Author: Jay Hopler
Publisher: McSweeney's
Published: 06/07/2022
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.50h x 6.36w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9781952119378

Product Tags:

Accessible Poetry, American, Death, Hardcover, Jay Hopler, McSweeney's, Poetry

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