44:1 Winter 1998

PAUL HOOVER

The Poet in His Skin: Remembering Paul Carroll

The Winter 1998 issue featured five poems by Paul Carroll, CR’s poetry editor in the late 1950s, and an excerpt from his memoir-in-progress “Straight Poets I Have Known and Loved.” The issue also included this memoir by poet and critic Paul Hoover, in which he reflects on his initiation into poetry as a student of Carroll’s, and more generally on Carroll’s shaping influence on Chicago’s poetry scene in the 70s and 80s.

Hoover has contributed several essays, poems, and translations to CR since the early 1990s, most recently translations of Hölderlin (51:4/52:1) and a note on Chicago and “local literary community” (51:3). The author of Edge & Fold (Apogee, 2006) and Fables of Representation: Essays (Michigan, 2004), Hoover edited the Norton Anthology of Postmodern Poetry (1994), and co-edits New American Writing with Maxine Chernoff.

[ES, 2006]

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