Winner of the Bronze Medal in the Poetry Category for the 2006 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award<br /><br />Winner of the 2007 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Poetry<br /><br />Winner in the Poetry: General category of the National Best Books 2007 Awards<br /><br />Winner of the 2009 Whiting Writers’ Award, given by The Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation<br /><br />Winner of the Silver Medal in the Poetry Category for the Florida Book Awards<br /><br />“Insouciance and bravura notwithstanding, there is a solitude in this art as deep as any in American poetry since Stevens. . . . <i>Green Squall</i> is a book filled with tardy recognitions and insights. Always we sense, beneath the surface of even the most raucous poems, impending crisis: the terrifying onset of that life long held at a distance. Always bravura is connected to melancholy, fastidious distinctions to wild exuberance, largesse to connoisseurship, self-contempt to uncontrollably erupting hopefulness. Hopler’s dreamy obscurities and rapturous effusions share with his more direct speech a refusal to be groomed into uncommunicative cool: they are encoded, not unintelligible. He writes like someone haunted or stalked; he wants, simultaneously, to hide and to end the anxiety of hiding, to reveal himself (in every sense of the word), to give himself away.”—from the Foreword by Louise Glück<br /><br />