Desolation: Souvenir

by Paul Hoover

Fiercely elegiac, the title poem of Paul Hoover's desolation: souvenir began as a "filling in" of the blank spaces in A Tomb for Anatole, Paul Auster's translation of Mallarm 's grief-stricken notes for a poem that he never completed on the death of his ten-year-old son. However, Hoover's writing soon turned to his own consideration of life, death, the breaking of family relations, and loss of love as experienced by all of us: "when death plays /...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1890650587
• ISBN13: 9781890650582
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Omnidawn
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"