Still life : poems /
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 mean...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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San Francisco :
McSweeney's,
[2022].
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| Series: | McSweeney's poetry series.
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 63 pages : music ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781952119378 1952119375 |