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The Book of Unnamed Things

The Book of Unnamed Things

Hoover, Paul

Paperback

PhilosophyLinguisticsGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1941196608
ISBN13: 9781941196601
Publisher: Madhat, Inc.
Published: Mar 5 2018
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Paul Hoover's The Book of Unnamed Things is a lush exercise in antiphonal parallelisms, a call-and-response of flesh, speech, and world. The accumulation of debts and releases is mapped elegantly onto the reversible cloth of the spoken and unspoken, the written versus the unwritten (and in between, the handwritten, that prodigal alibi). The dialogue here is not so much with ghosts as with the idea of ghosts, the shadows cast in the mind by sensual and philosophical inquiry. Words unspoken / remain forever old, Hoover asserts. The quiet power of this collection inheres in the accrual of experience, ever-exfoliating and opening continuously into a plain of juxtaposed signification: the doors are wide open / all is context now.

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