The Abridged History of Rainfall (McSweeney's Poetry Series)

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Jay Hoplers second collection a mourning song for his father is an elegy of uproar a careening hymn to disaster and its aftermath. In lyric poems by turns droll and desolate Hopler documents the struggle to live in the face of great loss a task that sends him ranging through Floridas torrid subtropics the mountains of the American West the streets of Rome and the Umbrian countryside. Vivid dynamic unrestrained: The Abridged History of Rainfall is a festival of glowing saints and fighting cocks of firebombs and birdsong.