{"product_id":"still-life","title":"Still Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStill Life\u003ci\u003e has been named a best book of the year by NPR and \u003c\/i\u003eTime\u003ci\u003e magazine. Longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConfronted with a terminal cancer diagnosis, Jay Hopler—author of the National Book Award-finalist \u003ci\u003eThe Abridged History of Rainfall\u003c\/i\u003e—got to work. The result of that labor is \u003ci\u003eStill Life\u003c\/i\u003e, 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; it’s a testament to courage, love, compassion, and the fierceness of the human heart. It’s 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":"McSweeney's","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":53391600910609,"sku":"9781952119378","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/6890\/3185\/files\/cover_5b06853e-648a-4d5f-93da-25ab3256493a.jpeg?v=1776867030","url":"https:\/\/www.stablebookgroup.com\/products\/still-life","provider":"Stable Book Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}