The abridged history of rainfall / Jay Hopler.

Author/creator Hopler, Jay, 1970-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoSan Francisco : McSweeney's, [2016]
Descriptionix, 75 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects

Uniform titlePoems. Selections
SeriesMcSweeney's poetry series
McSweeney's poetry series. ^A1303033
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.
Abstract 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 - Provided by the publisher.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Awards noteNational Book Award Finalist, Poetry, 2016
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2018295065
ISBN9781944211264 (hardcover)
ISBN1944211268 (hardcover)
Stock numberPgw, C/O Perseus Distribution 210 American Dr, Jackson, TN, USA, 38301 SAN 631-760X