The Abridged History of Rainfall

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. Vivid, dynamic, unrestrained: The Abridged History of Rainfall is a festival of glowing saints and fighting cocks, of firebombs and birdsong.

Author: Jay Hopler
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: McSweeney's
Published: 06/27/2017
Series: McSweeney's Poetry
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.3lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.40w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781944211400