Elegy Owed by Bob Hicok (English) Paperback Book

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Bob Hicok's poems jump from devastation to jubilance with "a laughter as old as humanity itself" (The New York Times).

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National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.Paterson Award for Literary Excellence."What Hicok's getting at [in Elegy Owed] is both the necessity and the inadequacy of language, the very bluntness of which (talk about a paradox) makes it all the more essential that we engage with it as a precision instrument, a force of clarity, of (at times) awful grace."-Los Angeles Times"[A] fluid, absorbing new collection. . . . Highly recommended."-Library Journal, starred reviewWhen asked in an interview "What would Bob Hicok launch from a giant sling shot?" he answered "Bob Hicok." Elegy Owed-Hicok's eighth book-is an existential game of Twister in which the rules of mourning are broken and salvaged, and "you can never step into the same not going home again twice."From "Notes for a time capsule":The twig in. I'll put the twig in I carry in my pocketand my pocket and my eye, my left eye. A cupof the Ganges and the bacteria from shitin the Ganges and the anyway ablutions of rainbow-robed Hindus in the Ganges. The dawnline of the mountainwith contrail above like an accent in a languagetoo large for my mouth. A mirrorso whoever opens the past will see themselvesin the past and fall back from their facespeaking to them across centuries or hoursor the nearnevers . . . Bob Hicok's worked as an automotive die designer and a computer system administrator before becoming an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech. He lives in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Author Biography

Bob Hicok: Bob Hicok's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, and The American Poetry Review. His books include This Clumsy Living (Univ. Pittsburgh, 2007), which was awarded the 2008 Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress, and The Legend of Light (Univ. Wisconsin, 1995), which was named a "Notable Book of the Year" by Booklist. Hicok has worked as an automotive die designer and a computer system administrator, and is currently an Associate Professor of English at Virginia Tech. He lives in Blacksburg, Virginia.

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The hardback of Elegy Owed is nominated for the 2014 National Book Critic's Circle Award! Winner announced in March 2014. Bob Hicok is considered one of the most prolific poets writing today, publishing hundreds of poems in a wide variety of magazines, including The New Yorker, Poetry, and The American Poetry Review Hicok has a dual appeal: He once owned his own automotive die design company, so has a real-world perspective and diction. Today he works in academia, though he has no academic degree. When Hicok was just beginning as a poet, he often read at slams and open mics in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as he preferred the "towny" scene of sub shops and bars to the world of the University of Michigan. Hicok's books are consistently well reviewed, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and Boston Review

Details ISBN1556594380 Author Bob Hicok Short Title ELEGY OWED Pages 128 Language English ISBN-10 1556594380 ISBN-13 9781556594380 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2014 Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2014-09-09 UK Release Date 2014-09-09 Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S. DEWEY 811/.54 Audience General AU Release Date 2015-01-01 Publication Date 2014-10-23 US Release Date 2014-10-23 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this

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