Rehearsal in Black (Salt Modern Poets S.) [Paperback]

Paul Hoover (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2001 | Series: Salt Modern Poets S.

These new poems by Hoover are dense, highly compact, and powerfully focused literary objects. (Poetry)

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Review

Paul Hoover's voice speaks to the closest listening ear as he writes a poetry whose momentum increases with each reading. The short lines and sudden turns of phrasing demand a flying journey through this book. The surprises the reader encounters also give foundation to one of the most imaginative and necessary writers in American verse. The Bloomsbury Review Paul Hoover's new collection of poems is something of a departure for a poet known for his humour, his high spirits, and sense of the absurd - an heir, so common wisdom would have it, of the New York school from O'Hara to Ron Padgett. A few poems in "Rehearsal in Black" do fit this bill: the comic travelogue 'California,' for instance, which takes the reader from Hollywood to Mt. Tamalpais. -- Marjorie Perloff Hoover always makes sure that the ear - as much as the eye - has plenty to enjoy. "Rehearsal in Black" is one of those rare books that successfully integrates both old and new poetic traditions, illustrating how poetry, "the science of the irrational," can still offer rich opportunities for synthesizing oppositional aesthetics. -- Fred Muratori Rain Taxi

About the Author

Paul Hoover is author of eleven poetry collections including Edge and Fold, Poems in Spanish, Winter (Mirror), Totem and Shadow: New & Selected Poems, Viridian, and The Novel: A Poem. He is also widely known as the editor of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology and the literary magazine New American Writing. Married to poet and fiction writer Maxine Chernoff, he teaches at San Francisco State University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Salt Publishing; 1st ed edition (November 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1876857315
• ISBN-13: 978-1876857318
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,150,009 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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the year's best, January 2, 2002

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This review is from: Rehearsal in Black (Salt Modern Poets S.) (Paperback)

This is a wonderful new book by a poet whose lyric style is complex and fulfulling.