At once rhythmically charged and stilled by the silences, Paul
Hoover's Poems in Spanish takes the English language into
fraternity with the haunting lyricism of Spanish, and in this way
pays tribute to the great poets writing in the Ibero Hispanic
tradition of the 20th century-among them Pessoa, Lorca, Vallejo,
Andrade, Neruda, Sabines. Poems in Spanish is a collection written
in English, but it is an English that surprises with its sharply
etched and yet resonant cadences. Hoover's achievement reminds us
that we often must hear our own voice translated through other
mediums before we can receive it most accurately, and before we can
recognize most truthfully its sounding of our own deepest
sensibilities. Hoover's poems include as their subjects the ethics
of interpersonal relations, the social identity's conflicted
relationship to self discovery, and the family bounds which
function as a frame that both supports and limits our potential.
Yet, just as we have come to see in Hoover's previous collections,
this poet is equally interested in using subject matter's
representation of event to examine what is occluded by the event of
representation. These poems demonstrate how a reader can find in
poetry a source of pleasure-for the ear, the heart, and
imagination.
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