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Still life : poems / Jay Hopler.
Van Pelt Library PS3608.O658 S75 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hopler, Jay, 1970-2022, author.
- Series:
- McSweeney's poetry series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Death--Poetry.
- Death.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 63 pages : music ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : McSweeney's, [2022]
- Summary:
- "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."--Publisher's website
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. One Radiation Vault 4
- Meditation on My Cancer
- self-portrait not looking
- Story problem
- Still life w/ hands
- After the diagnosis: meditation on the origins of "death's thin melody too (variations on an escalator)" by paul rudy
- Some Lights Go Out
- Parade
- The canonization
- Reason for not moving
- War comes to the island
- The seawall
- Still life w/ wet gems
- Another afternoon
- Imaginary photograph sunset mother's day davis islands florida 2020
- The Sky Is Like the Sky in a Painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- The Murder
- The Trauma Sutra
- Honky-Tonk Sonnet
- ch. Two To My Wife on Our Anniversary
- Swarm
- The Church Gardens: A Walk
- Love & the memory of it
- Loom
- Poem after a poem by cesar Vallejo w/ a nod to donald justice
- Erasure
- The Vacation Over
- ch. Three Discarded Memoir Titles
- Duck & Groundcover
- Student evaluation of instruction: obituary edition
- appendix
- Memento Mori
- Requiem w/ Eye Roll
- Benediction
- Benediction 2
- Meditation on the Italian Cinema
- Still life w/ feet
- Monster
- Meditation on folklore: a coda
- Family astrology
- markers
- obituary.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781952119378
- 1952119375
- OCLC:
- 1330275164
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