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Poetry. Hoover writes of ceaseless change in life and culture, seeking to capture "the unrelenting/rush of things/in their freezing." These poems glide seamlessly from philosophy to family to American landscapes, all observed with keen wit as well as melancholy. Gillian Conoley has accurately referred to the "appetitive inclusionary impulse" of Hoover's work. Yet for all its exuberance, WINTER (MIRROR) expresses quiet wonder at the impenetrabl...

Paul Hoover's The Book of Unnamed Things is a lush exercise in antiphonal parallelisms, a call-and-response of flesh, speech, and world. The accumulation of debts and releases is mapped elegantly onto the reversible cloth of the spoken and unspoken, the written versus the unwritten (and in between, the handwritten, that prodigal alibi). The dialogue here is not so much with ghosts as with the idea of ghosts, the shadows cast in the mind by sen...

Quando Jim Holder, appena laureato, si è rifiutato di andare in guerra e ha deciso di fare l'obiettore di coscienza, non aveva idea che anche lui avrebbe vissuto un suo piccolo, personale Vietnam. Assegnato al Metropolitan Hospital di Chicago - 18 piani e 900 letti - dovrà occuparsi della supervisione dei pasti e della lavanderia e, proprio lui che non voleva contatti con la morte, spesso dovrà anche trasportare cadaveri in obitorio. E così in...

Paul Hoover's wide-ranging subjects include the position of poetry in the electronic age, the notion of doubleness in the work of Harryette Mullen and others, the lyricism of the New York School poets, and the role of reality in American poetry.

Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology galvanized attention on its publication in 1994, making "the avant-garde accessible" (Chicago Tribune) and filling "an enormous gap in the publication annals of contemporary poetry" (Marjorie Perloff). Now, two decades later, Paul Hoover returns to suggest what postmodernism means in the twenty-first century. This revised and expanded edition features 114 poets, 557 poems, and 15 poetics essays, a...

Paul Hoover's Poems in Spanish takes the English language into fraternity with the haunting lyricism of Spanish.

Paul Hoover now establishes himself as an important voice of deep emotional resonance and far ranging vision.

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The poems in "Black Dog, Black Night" highlight an aspect of Vietnamese verse previously unfamiliar to American readers: its remarkable contemporary voices. Celebrating Vietnam's diverse and thriving literary culture, the poems collected here combine elements of French Romanticism, Russian Expressionism, American Modernism, and native folk stories into a Vietnamese poetic tradition marked by vivid imagery, powerful emotions, and inventive form...

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The Novel' is a booklength poem which examines the privilege of the novelist from the poet's point of view, asking in both astonishment and disappointment: why is the novelist at once the most lordly and common of authors?

Paul Hoover's 'The Novel' is a booklength poem written in response to the author's experience of having his first novel, 'Saigon, Illinois' (Vintage, 1988), published after a mere six months in the making.

Pointed essays and an interview from one of contemporary literature's most engaging critics, poets, and editors