Green Squall

Name: Green Squall
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ISBN: 9780300114546

ISBN-10: 0300114540

ISBN-13: 9780300114546

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jay Hopler, Louise Glï¿½ck

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Jay Hopler's "Green Squall" is the winner of the 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. As Louise Gluck observes in her foreword, ""Green Squall" begins and ends in the garden"; however, Hopler's gardens are not of the seasonal variety evoked by poets of the English lyric--his gardens flourish at lower, fiercer latitudes and in altogether different mindscapes. There is a darkness in Hopler's work as deep and brutal as any in American poetry. Though his verbal extravagance and formal invention bring to mind Wallace Stevens's tropical extrapolations, there lies beneath "Green Squall's" lush tropical surfaces a terrifying world in which nightmare and celebration are indistinguishable,…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 4/19/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.462



Foreword



Acknowledgments





In the Garden


Of Paradise


That Light One Finds in Baby Pictures


With Both Eyes Closing


The Boxcars of Consolidated Rail Freight


The Howling of the Gods


Of the Dead So Much Less Is Expected


Academic Discourse at Miami: Wallace Stevens and the Domestication of Light


Meditation on Ruin


Out of These Wounds, the Moon Will Rise


In the Time of Dreary Miracles


Approaching the Tower


The Frustrated Angel


Nothing to Do Now but Sit and Wait


Little Mirrors of Despair


Meditation on a Blue Vase


Like the Stare of Some Glass-Eyed God


Memoir





Of Hunger and Human Freedom


The Conjugal Bed





Meditation on Beethoven: Symphony 9


And the Sunflower Weeps for the Sun, Its Flower


Self-Portrait with Whiskey and Pistol


Meditation Malheureuse


Because the Past Is Never in the Past and Because It Is My Birthday


The Wildflower Field


Of Passion and Seductive Trees


Green Squall


Joy on the Edge of Vertigo


Firecracker Catalogue


Aubade


The Wildflower Field


A Book of Common Days


Feast of the Ascension, 2004. Planting Hibiscus


Notes