{"product_id":"stupid-hope-poems-9781555975333","title":"Stupid Hope: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe final collection by the late Jason Shinder, \"one of the finest of our new poets\" (Gerald Stern) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eI close my eyes and try to remember\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ewhen I was unopposed, when I started to die, \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ebuoyant, fragrant, shuddering with love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e --from \"Before\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJason 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.\" \u003ci\u003eStupid Hope\u003c\/i\u003e is Shinder's wry, penetrating, and wise farewell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJason Shinder\u003c\/b\u003e (1955-2008) was the author of two previous poetry collections and the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Poem That Changed America: \"Howl\" Fifty Years Later\u003c\/i\u003e. He directed the YMCA National Writer's Voice and taught at the Writing Seminars at Bennington College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50566964347154,"sku":"9781555975333","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_aef7423f-ee57-4852-b73d-11c70cd96b16.jpg?v=1731904886","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/stupid-hope-poems-9781555975333","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}