After Surgery, My Wife Helps Me into the Garden Where I Sit for Some Little Time Brooding on My Present Situation

Authors

illness and recovery, domestic lyricism, mortality and healing, natural imagery, contemplative poetry, evening meditation

Jay Hopler

Jay Hopler is a poet, essayist, and translator and his work has appeared most recently, or is forthcoming, in The New Republic, SLATE, and Subtropics. He was the recipient of the 2010–2011 Rome Prize for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters/the American Academy in Rome and he is currently at work on his second book of poetry, The Rooster King.