Still Life

By Jay Hopler

Book Overview

A Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Confronted with a terminal cancer diagnosis, Jay Hopler (1970-2022)--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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1952119928
• ISBN13: 9781952119927
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: McSweeney's
• Length: 63 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.2"