Night Wing over Metropolitan Area / John Hoppenthaler.

Author/creator Hoppenthaler, John author.
Other author Carnegie Mellon University Press, publisher.
Other author University of Chicago. Press, distributor.
Format Book
PublicationPittsburgh : Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2023.
DistributionChicago : University of Chicago Press
Copyright Date©2023
Description80 pages ; 21 cm.
Subjects

SeriesCarnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series
Carnegie Mellon poetry. ^A470106
Contents Night Wing over Metropolitan Area -- I. -- First Light -- Best Friends -- At 2 a.m. -- Superstition -- Bourbon, Cigarettes, Van Morrison -- Your Daydreaming Child -- OCD -- Cape Breton Highlands -- Shrine -- Happy Hour at Joey Roma's Restaurant and Bar -- II.-- The Week after Valentine's Day -- After Listening to the Weather, I Pull into a Bar -- Single Life with Cardinal and American Goldfinch -- The Tiniest Toad in Moore County, NC -- Chimes -- Hummingbirds & Eagles -- The Venus of Willendorf -- After Robert Motherwell's Two Figures -- Nocturne -- III. -- L'homme au chevalet, 1942 -- Great Again: A Suite -- Great Again -- Bird Riff -- Southern Pines, July 2019 -- THe Nature of Nature -- Current Events -- IV. -- Eureka Springs -- One Week before the Solstice -- To the Bone -- Grotto Spring -- My Second Spring. -- Jesus. Frankenstein. Danny's Monsters. -- Chant -- One among millions, -- Mitchelville, South Carolina -- Notes.
Abstract "Introspective poems that balance past and present beauty and pain. Hoppenthaler’s fourth collection gives voice to a hard-earned weariness that acknowledges but resists resignation. As Grammy Award-winning songwriter Rosanne Cash puts it, “Hoppenthaler’s attention to the specifics of nature—hummingbirds, Japanese maples, snowfall—are like embroidery, stitched through and holding together the sharp memories and images of loss, longing, regret, and hope.” These subtle yet powerful poems assay aging, spirituality, contemporary political concerns, death, the struggles of a mentally ill child, and related marital pressures. In the end, the poems conclude with a sense of resiliency and purpose reinscribed." --Provided by distributor.
Genre/formPoetry.
ISBN0887486924
ISBN9780887486920

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PS3608 .O67 N54 2023 ✔ Available Place Hold