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About the Author
Bob Hicok is associate professor of English at Virginia Tech University. He is the author of This Clumsy Living, Insomnia Diary, Animal Soul (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Plus Shipping, and The Legend of Light. Hicok is the reci
Reviews
Hicok is funny as hell, in Blake's sense of the infernal: irreverent, anarchic, undeceived. His bracing Ill humor is a vehicle for outrage, longing, tenderness, and a sly cynicism that is the necessary counterbalance to a tenacious sense of hope. He is one of our premiere anatomists of contemporary American life, and a wildly refreshing, necessary poet. - Mark Doty; ""[Hicok] writes with an honest man's happy discontent.... His poems stand on that inconvenient ground where the absurd and romantic visions battle for the voice and transmit the full joyful and afflicted human creature. He is one of the finest poets to have emerged in the last ten years."" - Rodney Jones; ""The sophisticated jester of these soliloquies, dumbfounded by the simplicity and complexity of life, is on a hang glider headed straight for Olympus."" - Mary Ruefle
Book Information
ISBN 9780822958420
Author Bob Hicok
Format Paperback
Page Count 96
Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press