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Current selection for Poetry Talk discussion group - Green Squall by Jay Hopler

Publication Details
ISBN: 0300114540
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication Date: April 2006
Binding: Paperback

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. 

Jay Hopler was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1970 and has earned degrees from New York University, The Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He lives in Southwest Florida.

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Yale Press Web site

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Where to find it? Suggestions -

• Amazon.com has both new & used copies
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• Look for it online at your local bookstore
• Your local library may also have copies

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