Night Wing over Metropolitan AreaIntrospective poems that balance past and present beauty and pain. Hoppenthalers fourth collection gives voice to a hard earned weariness that acknowledges but resists resignation. As Grammy Award winning songwriter Rosanne Cash puts it, Hoppenthalers attention to the specifics of naturehummingbirds, Japanese maples, snowfallare like embroidery, stitched through and holding together the sharp memories and images of loss, longing, regret, and hope.