Research Catalog

Title

Night Wing over Metropolitan Area / John Hoppenthaler.

Author

Hoppenthaler, John

Publication

• Pittsburgh : Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2023.
• Chicago : University of Chicago Press
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Carnegie Mellon University Press, publisher.
• University of Chicago. Press, distributor.

Description

80 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

"Introspective poems that balance past and present beauty and pain. Hoppenthaler's fourth collection gives voice to a hard-earned weariness that acknowledges but resists resignation. As Grammy Award-winning songwriter Rosanne Cash puts it, "Hoppenthaler's attention to the specifics of nature--hummingbirds, Japanese maples, snowfall--are like embroidery, stitched through and holding together the sharp memories and images of loss, longing, regret, and hope." These subtle yet powerful poems assay aging, spirituality, contemporary political concerns, death, the struggles of a mentally ill child, and related marital pressures. In the end, the poems conclude with a sense of resiliency and purpose reinscribed." --Provided by distributor.

Series Statement

Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series

Uniform Title

Carnegie Mellon poetry.

Subject

• American poetry
• Poetry
• poetry

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry.

Contents

Night Wing over Metropolitan Area -- I. -- First Light -- Best Friends -- At 2 a.m. -- Superstition -- Bourbon, Cigarettes, Van Morrison -- Your Daydreaming Child -- OCD -- Cape Breton Highlands -- Shrine -- Happy Hour at Joey Roma's Restaurant and Bar -- II.-- The Week after Valentine's Day -- After Listening to the Weather, I Pull into a Bar -- Single Life with Cardinal and American Goldfinch -- The Tiniest Toad in Moore County, NC -- Chimes -- Hummingbirds & Eagles -- The Venus of Willendorf -- After Robert Motherwell's Two Figures -- Nocturne -- III. -- L'homme au chevalet, 1942 -- Great Again: A Suite -- Great Again -- Bird Riff -- Southern Pines, July 2019 -- THe Nature of Nature -- Current Events -- IV. -- Eureka Springs -- One Week before the Solstice -- To the Bone -- Grotto Spring -- My Second Spring. -- Jesus. Frankenstein. Danny's Monsters. -- Chant -- One among millions, -- Mitchelville, South Carolina -- Notes.

Call Number

JFD 24-167

ISBN

• 0887486924
• 9780887486920

LCCN

2023933222

OCLC

1373337943

Author

Hoppenthaler, John, author.

Title

Night Wing over Metropolitan Area / John Hoppenthaler.

Publisher

Pittsburgh : Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2023.

Distributor

Chicago : University of Chicago Press

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series

Carnegie Mellon poetry.

Added Author

Carnegie Mellon University Press, publisher.

University of Chicago. Press, distributor.

Research Call Number

JFD 24-167