Paul Hoover's Books
Mar.18.2013
A new edition of this groundbreaking anthology revisits postmodernism as a twenty-first-century movement.
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,...
Sep.20.2010
The book consists of translations from Vietnamese to English of the lyric poetry of Nguyen Trai (1380-1442), one of the two most important poets of Vietnam's history. This is the first collection of Nguyen Trai's poetry to be published in English. Nguyen Trai is also famous for his role in the war that ousted the Chinese Ming Dynasty and established Le Loi as ruler of the first...
Nov.01.2009
56 formal variations on Shakespeare's sonnet 56
Jan.15.2008
Edited and translated by Nguyen Do and Paul Hoover, the anthology contains poetry by seventeen leading contemporary Vietnamese poets and four Vietnamese-American poets (Linh Dinh, Mong-Lan, Hoa Nguyen, and Truong Tran). Three poets included (Hoang Cam, Dang Dinh Hung, and Tran Dan) were members of the Nhan Van group who requested freedom of expression from the government in 1956...
Dec.19.2007
In Winter (Mirror), his ninth volume of poetry, Paul 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 "...
Dec.17.2007
A powerful collection of essays on the state of contemporary poetry, free from the stultifying theoretical rhetoric of recent literary history. Hoover's wide-ranging subjects include African-American interdisciplinary studies; 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...
Dec.17.2007
The majority of poems in this book were written as if in Spanish, thus it is in some ways a translation of the styles of Vallejo, Neruda, Lorca, and Sabines to my own work. The poems are lyrical and accessible but the reader will have to judge if they express my own feelings and experiences or those of the poets just named.
Dec.14.2007
Edge and Fold consists of two long poems, the title poem of 49 sections, and "The Reading." The poet Rosmarie Waldrop has written of the work, "Edge and Fold comes in short couplets that have the pith of aphorisms, but dismantle any expectation of closure. They push thinking over the edge into the folds of all my minds. In this amazing plural space (tenuously...
About Paul
Paul Hoover is the author of twelve books of poetry including Sonnet 56 (Les Figues Press, 2009), consisting of 56 formal variations on Shakespeare's sonnet 56; Edge and Fold (Apogee Press, 2006); Poems in Spanish (Omnidawn, 2005), nominated for the Bay Area...