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Elegy owed / Bob Hicok.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hicok, Bob, 1960-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Hicok, Bob, 1960---Works.
- Hicok, Bob.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (117 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bob Hicok's poems jump from devastation to jubilance with ?a laughter as old as humanity itself" (The New York Times).
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title Page; Note to the Reader; Dedication; Contents; Pilgrimage; Elegy with lies; The days are getting longer; O; The story of 5:33; Knockturn; Good-bye, topspin; Elegy to hunger; Coming to life; Ode to magic; Pre-planning; l ah g; Sound scape; You name this one; A request; One of those things we say; Making do; The gift; Listen; A country mapped with invisible ink; Elegy to unnamed sources; The missing; Some recent weather; Born again; Scarecrow overhears himself thinking; Elegy's; Desire; Take care; Obituary for the middle class; Song of the recital; Leave a message
- Blue printsWhat the great apes refer to as a philosophy of life; The order of things; How we came to live where we live; The heart of the soul of the gist of the matter; To speak somewhat figuratively for S.; Absence makes the heart. That's it: absence makes the heart.; A very small bible; Notes for a time capsule; Another holiday has come and gone; Ink; Shed and dream; You can never step into the same not going home again twice; A poem that wanted to be a letter but didn't know how; Owe is to ode as whatever is to I don't know; Ode to ongoing
- Elegy to the time it takes to realize the futility of elegiesLove; Elegy ode; Confessions of a nature lover; Circles in the sky; Something like an oath; Elegy owed; Missing; As I was saying; Speaking American; Moving day; Excerpts from mourning; Life; Sunny, infinite chance of rain; In lieu of building a crib; Equine aubade; I tell myself the future; Good-bye; About the Author; Books by Bob Hicok; Acknowledgments; Copyright; Special Thanks
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61932-084-3
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