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  • Water Look Away

    by Bob Hicok ...
    Winner of eight Pushcart Prizes and the Library of Congress Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt Prize for This Clumsy LivingRecognized by the National Book Critics Circle and has been selected for inclusion in nine volumes of the Best of American PoetryRecipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and one Guggenheim FellowshipProfessor at Virginia TechAuthor of eleven previous collections, four ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • Breathe

    by Bob Hicok ...
    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, soothing distress with tenderness while meditating on the persistence of love. Hicok writes with candid ... Read more

    $18.69 CAD

  • Elegy Owed

    by Bob Hicok ...
    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 precision instrument, a force of clarity, of (at times) awful grace."-Los Angeles Times"[A] fluid, absorbing ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Sex & Love &

    by Bob Hicok ...
    "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, often in sincere and heartbreaking ways."-Publishers WeeklyIn Sex & Love &, Bob Hicok attempts the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Hold

    by Bob Hicok ...
    "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 America’s favorites—and to make the reader want to share the poet’s reality fulfills poetry’s finest ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • Red Rover Red Rover

    by Bob Hicok ...
    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 and begs for our willingness to change. No subject is too high or low for his wide-sweeping gaze, a ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • This Clumsy Living

    by Bob Hicok ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    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 on the radio. They dance our 'clumsy living' with our shadows and our isolations to a music that ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • Insomnia Diary

    by Bob Hicok ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    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 moment of epiphany zags into comedy. Hicok's fluid ability to shift moods, the richness of his visual ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • Words for Empty and Words for Full

    by Bob Hicok ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    "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 ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • Ploughshares Winter 2024-25

    by John Skoyles, Joan Silber, Timothy Liu, Pádraig Ó Tuama, Emily Fragos, Charles Baxter, Rasaq Malik Gbolahan, Malena Mörling, Kellam Ayres, Justin Balog, Craig Burnett, Alex Chertok, Zachary Colter, Margarita Cruz, Stuart Dybeck, Ori Feinberg, Jeffrey Harrison, Bob Hicok, Taylor Light, Leslie McIntosh, Pablo Medina, Nancy Mitchell, Rosalie Moffett, Jarrett Moseley, Alexandra Napier, Alafia Nicole Sessions ...
    The Winter 2024-25 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Winter 2024-25 Issue, edited ... Read more

    $12.35 CAD

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  • The Human Line

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    “Poetry,” writes best-selling author Ellen Bass, “is the way I pay attention, appreciate, give praise, struggle, grieve, rage, and pray. It’s the way I embody my love for the world.”The Human Line, Bass’ seventh book of poems, startles with its precise detail, intimate images, and wild metaphors. Bass brings attention to life’s endearing absurdities, and many of the poems flash with a keen sense ... Read more

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