{"product_id":"still-life-1952119375","title":"Still Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1952119375\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hopler, Jay\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStill Life has been named a best book of the year by NPR and Time magazine. Longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award.Confronted with a terminal cancer diagnosis, Jay Hopler--author of the National Book Award-finalist The Abridged History of Rainfall--got to work. The result of that labor is Still Life, a collection of poems that are heartbreaking, terrifying, and deeply, darkly hilarious. In an attempt to find meaning in a life ending right before his eyes, Hopler squares off against monsters real and imagined, personal and historical, and tries not to flinch. This work is no elegy; its a testament to courage, love, compassion, and the fierceness of the human heart. Its a violently funny but playfully serious fulfillment of what Arseny Tarkovsky called the fundamental purpose of art: a way to prepare for death, be it far in the future or very near at hand.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67814318342432,"sku":"NEW1952119375","price":28.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71unhMyDILL.jpg?v=1792163631","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/still-life-1952119375","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}