Background
Hoover, Paul was born on April 30, 1946 in Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States. Son of Robert and Opal (Shinaberry) Hoover.
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From the acclaimed author of Winter (Mirror) and Rehearsal in Black, Fables of Representation is a powerful collection of essays on the state of contemporary poetry, free from the stultifying theoretical jargon of recent literary history. With its title essay, "Fables of Representation," one of the most cogent studies ever written of the New York School of poets (a group that includes the influential poet John Ashbery), this book is required reading for anyone who seeks to understand the poetry and culture of the postmodern period. Author Paul 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; and the role of reality in American poetry. Hoover also introduces two provocative essays sure to generate attention and discussion: "The Postmodern Era: A Final Exam" and "The New Millennium: Fifty Statements on Literature and Culture." Paul Hoover is the editor of the anthology Postmodern American Poetry and author of nine poetry collections, including Totem and Shadow: New and Selected Poems and Viridian. His poetry has appeared in American Poetry Review, The New Republic, and The Paris Review, among others. He is Poet-in-Residence at Columbia College, Chicago.
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(The editor of the anthology POSTMODERN AMERICAN POETRY (N...)
The editor of the anthology POSTMODERN AMERICAN POETRY (Norton, 1994) and the author of six earlier books of poetry, Hoover is credited with helping expand the possiblities for the ironic perspective in American verse. Seeming to find little or no contradiciton between pop irony and lyrical intensity, and often shifting between the two with a remarkable freedom, Hoover writes poems that, according to Ron Padgett, glow with the pleasures of surprise. The selected poems are an ideal starting-place for readers new to Hoover, while the spare and resonant new poems offer his fans yet another slant in a fascinating trajectory.
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Viridian is Paul Hoover's sixth collection of poetry and the first since his book-length work The Novel: A Poem was published in 1990. While The Novel: A Poem dealt with the dilemma of postmodern authorship, the poems in Viridian are conceptual pieces varied in style and subject matter. The poems in the first of three sections comment on the world through language and simultaneously explore how subject matter, from baseball to death to highway signs, is transformed by language. The middle section consists of longer poems in which meaning emerges through a filter of language. In the final and most lyrical section, several poems are based on Hoover's screenplay for Joseph Ramirez's 1994 independent film, Viridian. Many of these poems were used as voice-overs for the film's main character, a single mother searching for permanence. Their language is incantatory, as if poetry could fix a place for her in the world.
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Hoover, Paul was born on April 30, 1946 in Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States. Son of Robert and Opal (Shinaberry) Hoover.
Bachelor cum laude, Manchester College, 1968; Master of Arts, University of Illinois, 1973.
Assistant editor, University of Illinois Pr., Champaign, 1973-1974;
Professor of English, Columbia College, Chicago, since 1974. Co-founder Poetry Center, School of The Art Institute of Chicago of Chicago, 1974, board member 1974-1987, president 1975-1978. Editor OINK], 1971-1985.
Co-founder, editor New American Writing, 1986.
( From the acclaimed author of Winter (Mirror) and Rehear...)
(The editor of the anthology POSTMODERN AMERICAN POETRY (N...)
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(Viridian is Paul Hoover's sixth collection of poetry and ...)
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(Paul Hoover is a poet of urban dreams and expectations. T...)
(Fictional Novel, Literary Fiction)
Member Modern Language Association.
Married Maxine Chernoff, 1974. Children: Koren, Philip, Julian.