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Title: Insomnia Diary (PITT POETRY SERIES) by Bob Hicok ISBN: 0-8229-5842-2 Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The truth is simple
Comment: Amen to the reviewer from Studio City. I'm not often floored by a writer. I usually yawn after reading some fiction that's supposed to be great and vainly say to myself, "I could have written that. What's the big deal." But when I read Hicok's poem "Calling him back from layoff" I exclaimed, "Holy Hell," then I wept. I wept at its beauty. Writing that's not self-absorbed, not obscure, not as if it's trying to impress with it's false sophistication. I envy the writing. And I'm filled with a great sense of humility when I'm full of my own ego when I think my own writing has merit. Enjoy Hicok. When you read him, it's like being injected with adrenalin to recussitate you from the slumber you've fallen in daily living. It's only when you're awakened that you realize how near dead you were and you are forever changed.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the Best
Comment: This is easily one of the best books of poetry I've read in ages. There's lots of great writing out there, but every once in a while a book comes along that really knocks you out. Denis Johnson's "The Veil," Michael Burkard's "Secret Boat," Beckian Fritz Goldberg's "Never Be The Horse"...this book fits in that field for me...Just amazing--it makes you want to read more, and write more.
Rating: 5
Summary: Another Winner
Comment: Another wonderful book by an amazing poet. Hicok's imagination is evident throughout. These poems move around a great deal and yet never lose their focus on people, real people. I've never read a poem about how it feels to lay someone off, and in "Dropping the euphemismth", as in other poems, Hicok inserts moments of surreal intensity within a narrative framework which give his work an unusal emotional depth. This book is a worhty follow up to "Animal Soul."
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Title: What Narcissism Means to Me by Tony Hoagland ISBN: 1555973868 Publisher: Graywolf Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Legend of Light (Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry) by Bob Hicok, The University of Wisconsin Press ISBN: 0299149145 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Animal Soul (Contemporary Classics Poetry series) by Bob Hicok ISBN: 1931229112 Publisher: Invisible Cities Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Plus Shipping: Poems (AMERICAN POETS CONTINUUM SERIES,) by Bob Hicok ISBN: 1880238675 Publisher: BOA Editions Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Sad Little Breathing Machine by Matthea Harvey ISBN: 1555973965 Publisher: Graywolf Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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