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by: Jay Hopler, Louise Gluck
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.6
EAN: 9780300114546
ISBN: 0300114540
Label: Yale University Press
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: April 19, 2006
Publisher: Yale University Press
Sales Rank: 258260
Studio: Yale University Press
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Jay Hopler's Green Squall is the winner of the 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. As Louise Glück 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, and hope is synonymous with despair.
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Rating:  - The Exterminating Angel
He makes up new words when the old ones just aren't hitting the mark, such as his use of 'lizarding,' in the line "The grass was lizarding."
His idea of a garden is different than the traditional Marvell garden of poesy, for he's from Florida and the airs and breezes of the Caribbean are never far away. People there have different ideas of what to do with their leisure. In another poem he rebukes Wallace Stevens for writing poems about Florida based on only casual, nearly imaginary ... Read More
Rating:  - Enjoyable to read
I very much enjoyed this collection. The voice is intimate, compelling, authentic, feels honest, curious, and contemplative. I got the sense of isolation and doubt but the speaker is also sensitive, funny, and inquisitive, so the voice rarely drifts into complete nihilism. There are also moments of humor and self-mockery. I wouldn't say it's without any pretension, but those moments are usually buffered by humility or self-contempt. He uses repetition in fresh ways and it becomes a formal device ... Read More
Rating: - heartbreaking
The most remarkable debut collection I think I've ever read. Jay Hopler explores a vivid, plangent emotional terrain, wrestling out the difficulties of faith and love and longing with an elegance that re-imagines the expressive capacity of language. A well-deserved award-winner, a major talent.
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