Jay Hopler
Winner of the 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award (Chosen by Louise Glück)
Winner of the Bronze Medal in the Poetry Category for the 2006 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards
Winner of the Silver Medal in the Poetry Category for the 2006 Florida Book Awards
Winner of the 2007 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Poetry
Winner in the Poetry: General Category of the National Best Books 2007 Awards (USA Book News) “An alternately ecstatic and self-deprecating speaker measures himself against a ravishing and disinterested natural world that is sometimes a mirror, sometimes an unattainable aspiration. The dialogue in these 34 poems is mostly between the speaker and himself, allowing for pained self-negations. . . . The best of these poems are truly stunning.”—Publishers Weekly "Hopler writes powerful, sometimes rowdy, always revelatory, poems about attempting to transcend the banality of everyday life."—Baltimore Magazine "The book unfolds with an ingenious rhythm, encompassing and modulating extremes of expression that run parallel to the extragavances of the portrayed world. . . . Green Squall . . . is a lively affair of the whole being."—Ron Slate, Blackbird
“The Yale Series of Younger Poets remains the most prestigious [poetry contest], and Hopler’s work is an excellent addition to a list that’s included James Wright, Adrienne Rich, and Carolyn Forche. . . . Highly recommended.”—Library Journal
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Green Squall
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The Killing Spirit: An Anthology of Murder-for-Hire
The "hit man," the mob-linked assassins, the "for-hire" street corner killer, these are all a part of American folklore based largely on the movies and novels, and in more recent years, autobiographies and nonfiction exposes. The Killing Spirit: An Anthology Of Murder-for-Hire is a compelling and diverse anthology of writings about hit men, an independent sub-genre of modern literature. The surveyed authors of this literary mythos include Graham Greene, Joyce Carol Oates, Ian McEwan, Ernest Hemingway, Bharati Mukherjee, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Robert Lowell, David Kost, Charles Bukowski, Damon Runyon, Thomas Perry, Patricia Highsmith, David Ray, Lawrence Block, Jiri Kajane, Mark Rudman, and Andrew Vaches. The Killing Spirit is a seminal literary anthology and riveting reading. —Midwest Book Review
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The Killing Spirit: An Anthology of Murder-for-Hire
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