Hoover, Paul 2000
with Maxine Chernoff
Half erasure, half wisdom,
history rocks in her chair like Lillian Gish
in Night of the Hunter, a shotgun
in her lap…
– Paul Hoover, “Night of the Hunter”
Listen to Paul Hoover’s 2000 Poetry Center reading:
Audio recording of the Poetry Center Reading Series featuring Billy Collins, Andrei Codrescu, Ron Padgett, Lucille Clifton, Mark Perlberg, Li-Young Lee, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Anne Waldman, Yusuf Komunyakaa, Lisel Mueller, Ted Kooser, Paul Carroll, Jorie Graham, and Paul Hoover.
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They are crying out in restaurants,
so delighted to be speaking,
they appear to be insane.
But we are the silent types,
who hold speech within
like the rustle of gold foil.
– Paul Hoover, “Why is Quiet ‘Kept’?”
Read this Paul Hoover’s article from Poetry Society of America:
Paul Hoover – Poetry Society of America
An ancestor on my father’s side was an aide-de-camp to General Washington during the Revolutionary War. My father’s uncle Will was a four-hundred-pound Virginia state senator who had to drive his Model A Ford backwards up the steeper hills of the Shenandoah Valley to prevent injury if his brakes failed.
