The Novel: Poem

by Paul Hoover

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811211533
• ISBN13: 9780811211536
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.8" x 9.3"