Stupid Hope: Poems - Paperback
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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.
Stupid Hope: Poems - Paperback
$17.00
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by Jason Shinder (Author)
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 rememberwhen 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 Biography
Jason Shinder (1955-2008) was the author of two previous poetry collections and the editor of The Poem That Changed America: "Howl" Fifty Years Later. He directed the YMCA National Writer's Voice and taught at the Writing Seminars at Bennington College.
Number of Pages: 88
Dimensions: 0.26 x 8.86 x 6.1 IN
Publication Date: August 04, 2009
Award: National Jewish Book Award (2009)
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