Green Squall
By: Jay Hopler ; foreword by Louise Glück.
Series: Yale Series of Younger Poets
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9780300114539; 9780300114546
Copyright date: 2006
Description: "Jay Hopler's Green Squall is the winner of the 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. As Louise Gluck 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."--Publisher's website.

A collection of poems by Jay Hopler, winner of the 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.