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The Novel: Poem,Used
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Paul Hoovers The Novel is a booklength poem written in response to the authors experience of having his first novel, Saigon, Illinois (Vintage, 1988), published after a mere six months in the making. Hoover examines the privilege of the novelist from the poets point of view, asking in both astonishment and disappointment: why is the novelist at once the most lordly and common of authors? A mosaic in organization, the poems thirty parts mix, among others, Shakespeare and deconstructionist shoptalk with an account of Graceland when Elvis was alive and a gloss of the massmarket paperback of James M. Cains The Enchanted Isle, whose heroine Mandy appears in the poem as the fictive authors lover. The Novel presents no dichotomy between pop culture and the intensely literary, resisting closure by replicating the counterpoint speed of obsessive TV channelchanging. The closer the look one takes at a world/the greater the distance from which it looks back.
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