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Fiercely elegiac, the title poem of Paul Hoovers desolation : souvenir began as a filling in of the blank spaces in A Tomb for Anatole, Paul Austers translation of Mallarms grief-stricken notes for a poem that he never completed on the death of his ten-year-old son. However, Hoovers writing soon turned to his own consideration of life, death, the breaking of family relations, and loss of love as experienced by all of us: when death plays / with a child / it goes out nimble / comes back cold / life that traitor / aboard a razor boat. Written in three terse stanzas, each of the poems 50 pages offers a phrase that becomes the title of its opposite number at the other end of the manuscript. The result is a haunting echoic effect that becomes especially rich as the phrases cross at the middle of the sequence. At times, the poem mourns the loss of the earth itself: what will be enough / when the earth / contains no one / will the harvest still be full and no bees in the hive, no hive / sound returns to its bell. Inspired by his reading of Wittgensteins Tractatus, the companion poem, The Windows (The Actual Acts), consists of a series of philosophical propositions in everyday language: An

Who reads Desolation : Souvenir?

Author

Hoover, Paul, 1946-

Publisher

Omnidawn Publishing

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781890650582

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

5 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14