The Glacier's Daughter is the winner of the 1981 Juniper Prize, an annual poetry award sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Press. Arising from an enormous feeling for and an acute perception of nature, the poems in this collection are distinguished by unexpected imagery, unique arrangements of language, and the facility with which the natural and human worlds are described and transformed by daring new perceptions. Hopes's poems are imbued with the intensely felt religious experience that colors his writing, about both nature and other parts of his life. He sees his poetry, in part, as an attempt to "reverse Milton's activity and justify the ways of men to God."

The Glacier's Daughters (Juniper Prize for Poetry)

Literature & Fiction

Hopes, David Brendan

Poetry

University of Massachusetts Press

Blood Rose

Urthona Press

A New Book of Psalms – Songs of rage and desire, songs of remembrance and lament, songs begging and bargaining and growing still, above all songs of love--"love abundant, / love unspent, untarnished, rising wave-like / till the sea is drowned.” – PENIEL is a modern daybook of Psalms, with all of their broken, hurt-into-vision grandeur. – Thomas Gardner – Author of "John in the Company of Poets: The Gospel in Literary Imagination"
“The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage, / . . . Engine against th' Almighty," George Herbert might have said of these poems, for surely he would have been as astonished and moved as I was by their intensity and range and daring. Who knew an inner life could be this rich? Imagine that God came to you once at night--"It was otherwise at first. There was the body that came / by the risen moon and again before morning," and then imagine him unaccountably turning away and growing distant and deaf. These are the cries that would pour from that wound if we had David Hopes' remarkable gifts: songs of rage and desire, songs of remembrance and lament, songs begging and bargaining and growing still, above all songs of love--"love abundant, / love unspent, untarnished, rising wave-like / till the sea is drowned." Peniel is a modern daybook of Psalms, with all of their broken, hurt-into-vision grandeur. It is also, and at the same time, a work of great calmness and craft--it is, one would say, turning to Herbert again to find words to describe its hold on the reader, "something understood.”
Thomas Gardner, Professor of English, Virginia Tech
John in the Company of Poets: The Gospel in Literary Imagination
“David Brendan Hopes consecrates his book as a site of revelatory power, inviting his readers to join him in wrestling with the hardest questions of human existence — the problems of suffering and evil, the mysteries of beauty and grace. Hopes sings of these things with a prophetic honesty and clarity of vision, and so the mercy he finds is hard–learned and all the more profound. Throughout Peniel readers will catch glimpses of the face of God.”
Evan Gurney – Assistant Professor of English at University of North Carolina Asheville

Peniel

Saint Julian Press, Inc.

Harbinger Asylum is a literary and arts journal based in Houston, Texas. Houston is a vibrant city for literature. Our journal seeks to expose poets in the city to a wider audience and bring international poetry to the Houston community. This edition has a lot to be proud of, including a short essay on the poetry of Niels Hav and another on Eve Ensler.

Harbinger Asylum: Winter 2016

Authors, Various

Flynn, David

Quinn, Brian

Hopkins, Chris

Lindquist, Carl

Narayan, Swami Adi

Austin, Roy

tope, Akeredolu

Lakomy, Tamara

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

In this book, David Brendan Hopes fuses the spiritual and the mystical with the natural, invoking the possibility of grace. Writing about hiking, camping, and particularly about birds, he invites readers to mark the moment when flower, bird, and mountain announce themselves to the soul, bristling and wondrous.

A Sense of the Morning: Field Notes of a Born Observer (The World As Home)

Biographies & Memoirs

MILKWEED EDITIONS *

As Balzac famously said of cities, to walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.” For David Brendan Hopes, day hikes provide the perfect occasion for both refuge and contemplation. Encounters with wild animals, rare plants, or simply the perfect moment of weather and view are opportunities to reflect on the sublime synchronicity of human and natural life. The ferns of early spring transport him through time, to wonder whether dinosaurs had song. The emergence of cicadas calls to mind men and women gorgeous in impractical ways.” A glorious display one of exuberant defiance” of late fall roses suggests that plants might have moods. Touching on themes as diverse as hunting, deep ecology, wicca, and sci-fi literature, Hopes’ hikes and thoughts are part of a sifting of experience that unites the everyday world with a larger personal and eternal story.

Bird Songs of the Mesozoic: A Day Hiker's Guide to the Nearby Wild (The World As Home)

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

In The Falls of the Wyona by David Brendan Hopes, four friends growing up on the banks of a wild Appalachian river just after WWII discover, almost at the same time, the dangerous, alluring Falls and the perils of their own maturing hearts. Seen through the eyes of his best friend Arden, football hero Vince falls in love with the new kid, Glen. They have no context for their feelings, and the next few years of high school become a tense, though sometimes funny, artifice of concealment. The winner of Red Hen’s Quill Prize, The Falls of the Wyona is the first of three achieved (and several more projected) novels by this author imbued with the magical atmosphere of Appalachian culture.

The Falls of the Wyona

Humor & Satire

Red Hen Press

The Ones with Difficult Names

Kelsay Books

Night, Sleep, and the Dreams of Lovers revists Thomas Wolfe's Asheville 100years later. It is now a city of art and artists, and the people who see art and artists as away to become later day Medici, and put their mark on the world. What the history booksleave out is that these people are fully sexual and fully impassioned. . . and sometimestalk to their cats.

Night, Sleep and the Dreams of Lovers

Genre Fiction

Black Mountain Press

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