Rehearsal in Black

"'Between seeing and being,' Paul Hoover writes, 'the voiced object rises, // a make-believe project / that's barely even an object.' Throughout REHEARSAL IN BLACK, the distance from subject to object makes for a dramatic tension....As Hoover's astute, often wry intelligence explicitly works through this troubling gap, we find ourselves in William Carlos Williams territory. And indeed, Hoover moves through these 'rooms of words' with Williams-like agility, picking through 'he cultural debris' looking for structure, but never at the expense of the particular...."Hoover, Paul is the author of 'Rehearsal in Black' with ISBN 9781876857318 and ISBN 1876857315.