{"product_id":"the-novel-poem-9780811211482","title":"The Novel: Poem","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Paul Hoover\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Hoover's \u003cem\u003eThe Novel\u003c\/em\u003e is a booklength poem written in response to the author's experience of having his first novel, \u003cem\u003eSaigon, Illinois\u003c\/em\u003e (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 others, Shakespeare and deconstructionist \"shoptalk\" with an account of Graceland when Elvis was alive and a gloss of the mass-market paperback of James M. Cain's \u003cem\u003eThe Enchanted Isle\u003c\/em\u003e, whose heroine Mandy appears in the poem as the fictive author's lover. \u003cem\u003eThe Novel\u003c\/em\u003e presents no dichotomy between pop culture and the intensely literary, resisting closure by replicating the counterpoint speed of obsessive TV channel-changing. \"The closer the look one takes at a world\/the greater the distance from which it looks back.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47892518011031,"sku":"9780811211482","price":1406.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780811211482.webp?v=1781187317","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-novel-poem-9780811211482","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}