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Still Life

Jay Hopler

4.11/5 (217 ratings)

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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.

Format:: Hardcover

Pages:: 63 pages

Publication:: 2022

Publisher:: McSweeney’s

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1952119375

ISBN13:: 9781952119378

kindle Asin:: B0BPMQHJJB

Still Life

Jay Hopler

4.11/5 (217 ratings)

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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.

Format:: Hardcover

Pages:: 63 pages

Publication:: 2022

Publisher:: McSweeney’s

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1952119375

ISBN13:: 9781952119378

kindle Asin:: B0BPMQHJJB

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