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\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cB\u003eNational Book Critics Circle Award finalist.\u003c/B\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cB\u003ePaterson Award for Literary Excellence.\u003c/B\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What Hicok's getting at [in \u003cI\u003eElegy Owed\u003c/I\u003e] 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.\"\u0026#151;\u003cI\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[A] fluid, absorbing new collection. . . . Highly recommended.\"\u0026#151;\u003cI\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c/I\u003e, starred review\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen asked in an interview \"What would Bob Hicok launch from a giant sling shot?\" he answered \"Bob Hicok.\" \u003cI\u003eElegy Owed\u003c/I\u003e\u0026#151;Hicok's eighth book\u0026#151;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.\"\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cB\u003eFrom \"Notes for a time capsule\":\u003c/B\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cI\u003eThe twig in. I'll put the twig in I carry in my pocket\u003cBR\u003eand my pocket and my eye, my left eye. A cup\u003cBR\u003eof the Ganges and the bacteria from shit\u003cBR\u003ein the Ganges and the anyway ablutions of rainbow-\u003cBR\u003erobed Hindus in the Ganges. The dawnline of the mountain\u003cBR\u003ewith contrail above like an accent in a language\u003cBR\u003etoo large for my mouth. A mirror\u003cBR\u003eso whoever opens the past will see themselves\u003cBR\u003ein the past and fall back from their face\u003cBR\u003espeaking to them across centuries or hours\u003cBR\u003eor the nearnevers . . . \u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cB\u003eBob Hicok\u003c/B\u003e'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.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003c/div\u003e |
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