Edge and Fold [Paperback]

Paul Hoover (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2006

Poetry. "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 minds. In this amazing plural space (tenuously tethered to the white of the page) subtle discriminating intelligences unfold lyric intensity into question, wonder, mystery. EDGE AND FOLD confirms Paul Hoover as one of our important poets"--Rosmarie Waldrop.

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About the Author

Paul Hoover is the author of eleven books of poetry. He is the editor of the anthology Postmodern American Poetry (W. W. Norton, 1994) and, with Maxine Chernoff, the annual literary magazine NEW AMERICAN WRITING. His collection of literary essays, Fables of Representation, was published in the Poets on Poetry series of University of Michigan Press in 2004. He teaches at San Francisco State University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Apogee Press; 1st edition (January 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 097446872X
• ISBN-13: 978-0974468723
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,414,380 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Paul Hoover was born in Harrisonburg, Virginia, in 1946, and currently lives in San Francisco, where he teaches at San Francisco State University and edits the well-known literary magazine New American Writing. His recent poetry volumes include The Novel: A Poem (New Directions, 1991), Viridian (Univerity of Georgia Press, 1997), Totem and Shadow: New and Selected Poems (Talisman House, 1999), Rehearsal in Black (Salt Publications, 2001), Winter Mirror (Flood Editions, 2002), Poems in Spanish (Omnidawn Publishing, 2005), Edge and Fold (Apogee Press, 2006), and Sonnet 56 (Les Figues Press, 2009), which consists of 56 formal variations on Shakespeare's sonnet 56. Editor of a leading anthology, Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology, 1994, he is also the author of a book of literary essays, Fables of Representation (University of Michigan Press, 2004). With Maxine Chernoff, he edited and translated Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin (Omnidawn, 2008), which won the 2009 PEN USA Translation Award. With Nguyen Do, he edited and translated Beyond the Court Gate: Selected Poems of Nguyen Trai. He currently resides in Mill Valley, California.