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Stupid Hope

Poems

By Shinder, Jason

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The final collection by the late Jason Shinder, “one of the finest of our new poets” (Gerald Stern)I close my eyes and try to rememberwhen I was unopposed, when I started to die,buoyant, fragrant, shuddering with love. —from “Before”Jason Shinder’s last poems are his moving testimonies to poetry, love, and friendship. With power, clarity, and disarming humor, the poems confront grief and mortality with a humility and fortitude that come only “with hope, stupid hope.” Stupid Hope is Shinder’s wry, penetrating, and wise farewell.

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ISBN
978-1-55597-533-3
Publisher
Graywolf Press


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Reviewed on September 1, 2009

By most accounts Shinder-who died from cancer at 52 last year-led active social and professional lives. A community organizer among poets, he edited numerous anthologies and founded the YMCA's National Writer's Voice program. But like the two volumes of poetry that preceded it, this third, posthumous collection, edited by his friends, gives voice to "The whipped soul, the whacked an...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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