Still life: poems
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San Francisco : McSweeney's, ©2022.
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Book
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63 pages : music ; 22 cm.
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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."--Publisher's website.
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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."--Publisher's website.
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Hopler, J. (2022). Still life: poems. McSweeney's.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Hopler, Jay, 1970-2022. 2022. Still Life: Poems. McSweeney's.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Hopler, Jay, 1970-2022, Still Life: Poems. McSweeney's, 2022.
MLA Citation (style guide)Hopler, Jay. Still Life: Poems. McSweeney's, 2022.
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