Still Life - 9781952119378

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.

• | Author: Jay Hopler
• | Publisher: McSweeney's Publishing
• | Publication Date: Jun 07, 2022
• | Number of Pages: Not Available pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Poetry
• | ISBN-10: 1952119375
• | ISBN-13: 9781952119378