Elegy Owed Contributor(s): Hicok, Bob (Author) |
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ISBN: 1556594380 ISBN-13: 9781556594380 Publisher: Copper Canyon Press OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | American - General - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss |
Dewey: 811.54 |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.45 lbs) 128 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Death/Dying |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 review When 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 pocket 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. |