Stupid Hope: Poems

The final collection by the late Jason Shinder, "one of the finest of our new poets" (Gerald Stern)

I close my eyes and try to remember
when I was unopposed, when I started to die,
buoyant, fragrant, shuddering with love.
--from "Before"

Jason Shinder's last poems are his moving testimonies to poetry, love, and friendship. With power, clarity, and disarming humor, the poems confront grief and mortality with a humility and fortitude that come only "with hope, stupid hope." Stupid Hope is Shinder's wry, penetrating, and wise farewell.

Author: Jason Shinder
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 08/04/2009
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.86h x 6.10w x 0.26d
ISBN: 9781555975333


Award: National Jewish Book Award - Finalist