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17 produkter
Legend of Light
Av Bob Hicok
Häftad, 1995
187 kr
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These poems, reflecting a kind of severity, set out to produce a morally accurate view of the mundane world they inhabit. The poet also, however, keeps his eye on the larger view - on megalopolis, and also what he himself calls, ""the heart's jazz"".
This Clumsy Living
Av Bob Hicok
Häftad, 2007
297 kr
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Winner of the 2008 Bobbit National Poetry Prize.“Few others in contemporary poetry are so brilliantly able to combine wit and weight, to charge the language so it virtually glows in the dark. Hicok's poems just plain rock. They rock because they are gorgeous. They rock because they are sad and turn …
Words for Empty and Words for Full
Av Bob Hicok
Häftad, 2010
297 kr
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"As always with a Bob Hicok book, fascinating and a book you sort of can’t help but pick up and suddenly, two hours later, find yourself having read straight through. I can think of just about no contemporary poets who publish such consistently great work."—Corduroy Books
Sex & Love &
Av Bob Hicok
Häftad, 2016
190 kr
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"The most potent ingredient in virtually every one of Bob Hicok's compact, well-turned poems is a laughter as old as humanity itself."— The New York Times Book Review "Hicok's poems are like boomerangs; they jut out in wild, associative directions, yet find their way back to the root of the matter, …
Hold
Av Bob Hicok
Häftad, 2018
177 kr
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"Bob Hicok is a spectrum... I'd love to see an MRI of his brain while he's writing, as the neurons show us what's possible, how a human can be a thought leader, taking us into the future... Hicok interrogates the world with mercy and wit and style and intelligence and modest swag. He's one of …
Water Look Away
A Novella
Av Bob Hicok
Häftad, 2023
184 kr
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Bob Hicok’s Water Look Away is an experimental conversation with the highest and lowest facets of humanity. “Once a man who sometimes wanted to kill himself loved a woman who sometimes wanted to live.” In Bob Hicok’s Water Look Away , we witness a brilliant poet enter a dark space and attempt to …
Breathe
Av Bob Hicok
Häftad, 2026
181 kr
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Hicok’s newest collection interrogates love, purpose, belief, and desire with stunning candor and an ever-burning desire for understanding. Bob Hicok soothes distress with tenderness in his newest collection, Breathe , meditating on the persistence of love in the modern era. Through poems that drip …
Elegy Owed
Av Bob Hicok
E-bok, 2013
168 kr
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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 …
Sex & Love &
Av Bob Hicok
E-bok, 2016
164 kr
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"The most potent ingredient in virtually every one of Bob Hicok's compact, well-turned poems is a laughter as old as humanity itself."The New York Times Book Review"Hicok's poems are like boomerangs; they jut out in wild, associative directions, yet find their way back to the root of the matter, …
Hold
Av Bob Hicok
E-bok, 2019
156 kr
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"Bob Hicok is a spectrum... I’d love to see an MRI of his brain while he’s writing, as the neurons show us what’s possible, how a human can be a thought leader, taking us into the future… Hicok interrogates the world with mercy and wit and style and intelligence and modest swag. He’s one of …
Red Rover Red Rover
Av Bob Hicok
E-bok, 2021
198 kr
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Bob Hicok’s Red Rover Red Rover is joyous and macabre, hopeful and morbid, caring and critical. These poems are apocalyptic in tone but tender in their depiction of dying animals, disappearing water, raging fires, and the humans to blame. He calls attention to the dire costs of modern conveniences …
Water Look Away
Av Bob Hicok
E-bok, 2023
275 kr
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Bob Hicok’s Water Look Away is an experimental conversation with the highest and lowest facets of humanity. “Once a man who sometimes wanted to kill himself loved a woman who sometimes wanted to live.” In Bob Hicok’s Water Look Away , we witness a brilliant poet enter a dark space and attempt to …
Breathe
Av Bob Hicok
E-bok, 2026
245 kr
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Hicok's newest collection interrogates love, purpose, belief, and desire with stunning candor and an ever-burning desire for understanding.Hicok's poetry has long been distinctive for its compassionate breadth of feeling, curiosity, and play. In Breathe, he meets the social and cultural moment, …
Plus Shipping
Av Bob Hicok
Häftad, 1998
190 kr
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Buddha alarm clocks, Shiva spice racks, dying gardeners, gunned-down prostitutes, suicidal visionaries, and a god "who is shorter/and a better cook than your God" populate these poems that arrive Plus Shipping. Demanding our perception of the world in payment, Hicok shows us that time has "bones we …
Insomnia Diary
Av Bob Hicok
Häftad, 2004
302 kr
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Bob Hicok's poems are often edgy, brazen, and funny. They’re just as likely to be soulful, reflective, and provocative. Usually at the same time. As Hicok builds toward the punchline of a poem set up with his characteristic wit, he zigs into seriousness. A thoughtful meditation that builds to a …
