02396nam 2200409 450 991079376050332120230808204339.01-944211-36-5(CKB)4100000008701455(MiAaPQ)EBC5821021(EXLCZ)99410000000870145520190816d2016 uy pengurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe abridged history of rainfall /Jay HoplerSan Francisco :McSweeney's,[2016]©20161 online resource (ix, 75 pages) illustrationsMcSweeney's poetry series1-944211-26-8 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.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.McSweeney's poetry series.GriefPoetryGrief811.6Hopler Jay1970-1493823MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910793760503321The abridged history of rainfall3717027UNINA