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Elegy Owed

✍ Scribed by Hicok, Bob

Book ID: 108225069
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Tongue: English
Weight: 120 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781556594366

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✦ Synopsis

"Smart, honest, powerfully inventive, [Hicok's] writing asks the biggest questions while acknowledging that there are no answers beyond the imposed structure of the page."--Los Angeles Times

"Seamlessly, miraculously, [Hicok's] judicious eye imbues even the dreadful with beauty and meaning."--The New York Times Book Review

Gritty, complicated, and earnest, Elegy Owed breaks--then salvages--the rules for mourning. While poet Bob Hicok remembers the departed as ephemera or skin cells, fog is invited to tea and the beauty of dandelion fluff is held for ransom. Hicok's language is so humid with expectation and fearlessness that his poems create a clandestine manual to survival.

From "The Order of Things":

_Then I stopped hearing from you. Then I thought
I was Beethoven's cochlear implant. Then I listened
to deafness. Then I tacked a whisper
to the bulletin board. Then I liked dandelions
best in their afro...

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