Seven - Softcover

Hopson, Antonio J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1681140950 ISBN 13: 9781681140957

Publisher: Anaphora Literary Press, 2015

Synopsis

A collection of poetry outwardly directed at opening wounds and bandaging them. It is a book that exhibits social-emotional intelligence, humor and healing. Above all, it moves us and seduces us.

AJ Hopson is a lover. A gentleman. A pirate. A father of two boys and the ex-husband of a suicidal addict who survived breast cancer. Life is a journey, and part of the time he was on fire, or laughing, making love, drinking or watching crows plot his destruction. He's embedded all seven of his stories into a single book of poetry.

About this title

About the Author

Antonio J. Hopson writes poetry, speculative fiction, flash fiction, and essays. His work has appeared in The Harrow, SNReview, Ascent Aspirations, Lost Magazine, The Piker Press, Akashic Books' Mondays Are Murder series, and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu's Exquisite Corpse. He received Farmhouse Magazine's Reader's Choice Award and was invited to perform at Seattle's Richard Hugo House as a featured writer. He was selected to participate in Evergreen College's Literary Conference on "Activism and the Avant-Garde" and is a national EPPIE Award finalist. Website: AntonioHopson.com

Review

"I was engaged. This involvement increased as the diversity of the collection grew, which, in turn, augmented the complexity of the book as a whole. As I read on, the book meandered through somewhat traditional love poems, minimalistic pieces, poetic prose, rhyme, and even what you could call a short story...  My favorite, however, was the final poem, 'What May Come, Will Come.' It stands on its own, while also serving as a gorgeous finale..." --OnlineBookClub

"Antonio Hopson spins gentle legends and quiet love stories. From biker goddesses to mythical tricksters, from feuding winds to debauched taverns, the subjects of 'The Vernal Equinox of Death and Kisses and Other Short Stories' reveal the author's romantic enchantment with the world around him, even when it's at its grittiest." -Dru Pagliassotti, Editor in Chief, The Harrow

Antonio Hopson writes with the sense and instincts of a Jack Keruoac, combined with the cultural eye for detail of a Chuck Klosterman. All five senses thrive when reading his prose, which moves through you like the Snoqualmie River itself." -Jon Horowitz, The Wonder Boy Review

"Instead of cannons, Antonio J. Hopson uses words as his weapon of choice in the poetry collection Seven, and that for the most part focuses on a love affair. Amazingly, his use of words gives the impression that this affair--at least for him--resembles the carnage of the Crusades... Hopson is a poet of promise... I wanted to have witnessed this fire in more of the poems in this collection. I look forward to reading more of his work as he, and the rest of us, navigate this life (which can be of carnage at times) with the light of words." --Elvis Alves, The Compulsive Reader

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About this edition

• Publisher: Anaphora Literary Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1681140950
• ISBN 13: 9781681140957
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 60
• Editor: Doemland Katie