The abridged history of rainfall / Jay Hopler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hopler, Jay, 1970- author.

Series:

McSweeney's poetry series.

McSweeney's poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grief--Poetry.

Grief.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 75 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : McSweeney's, [2016]

Summary:

Jay Hopler's second collection, a mourning song for his father, is an elegy of uproar, a careening hymn to disaster and its aftermath. In lyric poems, by turns droll and desolate, Hopler documents the struggle to live in the face of great loss, a task that sends him ranging through Florida's torrid subtropics, the mountains of the American West, the streets of Rome, and the Umbrian countryside - Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

Winter Night Full of Stars

Where Is All This Water Coming From?

Self-Pity Is Better Than No Pity At All

It Was Not of the Moon We Dreamt

Umbrian Anecdotes

O, the Sadness Immaculate

Not All Skeletons Are Museum Quality

A Moral Victory Is Still A Defeat

Poem Written on the First Anniversary of My Father's Death

After the Obsequies, Etc.

Eulogy (Currently in Revision)

Meditation on a Poem Currently in Revision

Sonnet on Consequence

May 25

Excerpts from the Unabridged History of Rainfall

Birds are How the Earth Makes Sense of Heaven

Elegy for the Living

The Grove

The Ranges of Birds

Beauty is a Real Thing, I've Seen It

What This Poem Means

Alarums. Flourishes. Exeunt.

From a Window

Elegy

Glose

The Pallbearer

Jazz Funeral

Cloud Chanty

Epigraph

The Rooster King

The Coast Road.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

National Book Award Finalist, Poetry, 2016

ISBN:

1-944211-36-5