Awards and honors
The Frederick Bock Award for poems that appeared in the June 2010 issue of Poetry; The PEN-USA Translation Award (with Maxine Chernoff) for Selected Poems of Friedrich Holderlin; The Jerome J. Shestack Award for the best poems to appear in American Poetry Review in 2002; The Carl Sandburg Award, Chicago's leading literary prize, for Idea, 1987; The General Electric Foundation Award for Younger Writers, 1984, for poems later included in Nervous Songs; and an NEA Fellowship in poetry, 1980.
Hoover has published fifteen poetry collections, a book of literary essays, and a novel. He has also co-translated three volumes of poetry from German and Vietnamese.
En el idioma y en la tierra (In Idiom and Earth), translated into Spanish by Maria Baranda, Mexico City: Conaculta, 2012
La intencion y su materia (Intention and Its Thing), translated into Spanish by Maria Baranda, Caracas: Monte Avila Editores, 2012
desolation : souvenir, Richmond, CA: Omnidawn Publishing, 2012
Sonnet 56, Los Angeles, CA: Les Figues Press, 2009
Corazón, translated into Spanish by María Baranda, Puebla, MX: LunArena Press, 2009
Edge and Fold, Berkeley: Apogee Press, 2006
Poems in Spanish, Richmond, CA: Omnidawn Publishing, 2005, nominated for the Bay Area Book Award
Winter Mirror, Chicago: Flood Editions, 2002
Rehearsal in Black, Cambridge, England: Salt Publications, 2001
Totem and Shadow: New & Selected Poems, Jersey City: Talisman House, 1999
Viridian, Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 1997, winner of the Contemporary Poetry Series competition
The Novel: A Poem, New York: New Directions, 1991
Idea, Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 1987
Nervous Songs, Seattle: L'Epervier Press, 1986
Somebody Talks a Lot, Chicago: The Yellow Press, 1983
Letter to Einstein Beginning Dear Albert, Chicago: The Yellow Press, 1979
Fables of Representation (Essays), Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004
Postmodern American Poetry (anthology), New York: W. W. Norton, 1994
Saigon, Illinois (novel), New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 1988, a chapter of which appeared in The New Yorker
Beyond the Court Gate: Selected Poems of Nguyen Trai, edited and translated with Nguyen Do, Denver: Counterpath Press, 2010
Selected Poems of Friedrich Holderlin, edited and translated with Maxine Chernoff, Richmond, CA: Omnidawn Publishing, 2008
Black Dog, Black Night: Contemporary Vietnamese Poetry, edited and translated with Nguyen Do, St. Paul: Milkweed Editions, 2008
