9781556594380

Elegy Owed

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ISBN13: 9781556594380

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National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.

Paterson Award for Literary Excellence.

"What Hicok's getting at [inElegy 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
and my pocket and my eye, my left eye. A cup
of the Ganges and the bacteria from shit
in the Ganges and the anyway ablutions of rainbow-
robed Hindus in the Ganges. The dawnline of the mountain
with contrail above like an accent in a language
too large for my mouth. A mirror
so whoever opens the past will see themselves
in the past and fall back from their face
speaking to them across centuries or hours
or 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.



ISBN-13

9781556594380

ISBN-10

1556594380

Weight

0.47 Pounds

Dimensions

5.90 x 0.40 x 8.90 In

List Price

$17.00

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

128 pages

Publisher

Copper Canyon Press

Published On

2014-09-09



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