Stupid Poetry

Download or read book Stupid Hope written by Jason Shinder and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 remember when 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.