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The Novel: Poem (Hardcover, New)
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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.
Hoover examines the privilege of the novelist from the poet's 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 poem's thirty parts mix, among others,
Shakespeare and deconstructionist "shoptalk" with an account of
Graceland when Elvis was alive and a gloss of the mass-market
paperback of James M. Cain's The Enchanted Isle, whose heroine
Mandy appears in the poem as the fictive author's lover. The Novel
presents no dichotomy between pop culture and the intensely
literary, resisting closure by replicating the counterpoint speed
of obsessive TV channel-changing. "The closer the look one takes at
a world/the greater the distance from which it looks back."
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