| Description |
1 online resource |
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McSweeney's Poetry |
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McSweeney's Poetry
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| Contents |
Winter Night Full of Stars -- Where Is All This Water Coming From? -- Self-Pity Is Better Than No Pity At All -- It Was Not of the Moon We Dreamt -- Umbrian Anecdotes -- O, the Sadness Immaculate -- Not All Skeletons Are Museum Quality -- A Moral Victory Is Still A Defeat -- Poem Written on the First Anniversary of My Father's Death -- After the Obsequies, Etc. -- Eulogy (Currently in Revision) -- Meditation on a Poem Currently in Revision -- Sonnet on Consequence -- May 25 -- Excerpts from the Unabridged History of Rainfall -- Birds are How the Earth Makes Sense of Heaven -- Elegy for the Living -- The Grove -- The Ranges of Birds -- Beauty is a Real Thing, I've Seen It -- What This Poem Means -- Alarums. Flourishes. Exeunt. -- From a Window -- Elegy -- Glose -- The Pallbearer -- Jazz Funeral -- Cloud Chanty -- Epigraph -- The Rooster King -- The Coast Road |
| Summary |
Jay Hopler's second collection, a mourning song for his father, is an elegy of uproar, a careening hymn to disaster and its aftermath. In lyric poems by turns droll and desolate, Hopler documents the struggle to live in the face of great loss, a task that sends him ranging through Florida's torrid subtropics, the mountains of the American West, the streets of Rome, and the Umbrian countryside. Vivid, dynamic, unrestrained: The Abridged History of Rainfall is a festival of glowing saints and fighting cocks, of firebombs and birdsong |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed November 21, 2016) |
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National Book Award Finalist, Poetry, 2016 |
| Subject |
Poetry
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Poetry as Topic
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poetry.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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Poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781944211363 |
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1944211365 |
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