The abridged history of rainfall / Jay Hopler.
| Author/creator | Hopler, Jay, 1970- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | San Francisco : McSweeney's, [2016] |
| Description | ix, 75 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Poems. Selections |
| Series | McSweeney'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. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Awards note | National Book Award Finalist, Poetry, 2016 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018295065 |
| ISBN | 9781944211264 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1944211268 (hardcover) |
| Stock number | Pgw, C/O Perseus Distribution 210 American Dr, Jackson, TN, USA, 38301 SAN 631-760X |