Author

Contributions

  • Louise Glück - Foreword

Publication

2006 - Yale University Press, New Haven, CT

Language

English

Word Count

17,750 words, Guess

Page Count

71 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivegreensquallyales00hopl
  • ISBN-100300114540
  • ISBN-100300114532
  • ISBN-139780300114539
  • ISBN-139780300114546
and 5 more
  • Goodreads4787529
  • OCLC Control Number61448114
  • Better World Books9780300114546
  • Better World Books9780300114539
  • Open LibraryOL22732508M

Classifications

  • LCCPS
  • LCCPS3608.O658G74 2006

Description

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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