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The Novel: Poem (C.I.P. Series: New Directions Paperback; 706),New
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About the Author Paul Hoover is a professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University and coeditor of the literary magazine New American Writing. He has published nine books of poetry and a novel. From Publishers Weekly Hoover's engaging, challenging booklength poem reads like a detective story where the private eye, always one step out of sync, unwittingly tracks himself. The detective here is the writer on the trail of authorial creationauthor meets authorand Hoover, who combines the knowledge of a deconstructionist critic with the trickery of a copywriter, plays the theme for all its worth. He is able to break down the authority (as in author) of the text and conflate the roles of writer and reader, by mimicking the process through which all storytelling, both public and private, takes place. The same stream of thoughts that we, the readers, use to build our own stories also provides the raw material for the novelist: 'The shadows of thoughts, like thoughts, / have language but no words.' The literary repertoire of the past serves, too, as a creative source for the writer, and Hoover assaults the reader with a fantastic parade of references, from the most sublimeEliot, Shakespeare, Proustto the most lowbrow and popularpaperback crime fiction and advertising ditties. Hoover is the author of a novel, Saigon, Illinois. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. From the Back Cover 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.
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