{"product_id":"elegy-owed-9781556594380","title":"Elegy Owed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Book Critics Circle Award finalist.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\"--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[A] fluid, absorbing new collection. . . . Highly recommended.\"--\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--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.\"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBob Hicok: Bob Hicok's poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, Poetry, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe American Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e. His books include \u003ci\u003eThis Clumsy Living\u003c\/i\u003e (Univ. Pittsburgh, 2007), which was awarded the 2008 Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress, and \u003ci\u003eThe Legend of Light\u003c\/i\u003e (Univ. Wisconsin, 1995), which was named a \"Notable Book of the Year\" by \u003ci\u003eBooklist.\u003c\/i\u003e Hicok has worked as an automotive die designer and a computer system administrator, and is currently an Associate Professor of English at Virginia Tech. He lives in Blacksburg, Virginia.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50356336787730,"sku":"9781556594380","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e94c265a-a577-4dd1-b153-6c3f2210d58c.jpg?v=1728309096","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/elegy-owed-9781556594380","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}