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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San Francisco :
McSweeney's,
[2022].
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| Series: | McSweeney's poetry series.
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Table of Contents:
- Upon learning that I am the 51st most-famous person from Puerto Rico
- Chapter one : Radiation vault
- 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 island florida 2020
- The sky is like the sky in a painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- The murder
- The trauma sutra
- Honky-tonk sonnet
- Chapter two : To my wife on our anniversary
- Swarm
- The church gardens: a walk
- Love & the memory of it
- Loom
- Poem after a poem by césar vallejo w/ a nod to donald justice
- Erasure
- The vacation over
- Chapter three : Discarded memoir titles
- Duck & groundcover
- Student evaluation of instruction: obituary edition
- Appendix
- Memento mori
- Requiem w/ eye roll
- Benediction
- Benediction
- Meditation on the Italian cinema
- Still life w/ feet
- Monster
- Meditation on folklore: a coda
- Family astrology
- Markers
- Obituary.