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by: Bob Hicok
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9781880238677
ISBN: 1880238675
Label: BOA Editions Ltd.
Manufacturer: BOA Editions Ltd.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 100
Publication Date: October 01, 1998
Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.
Sales Rank: 1204844
Studio: BOA Editions Ltd.
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Poetry. Bob Hicok is an automotive die designer living in Ann Arbor Michigan. His THE LEGEND OF LIGHTS won the 1995 Felix Pollaak Poetry Prize and ALA Booklist Notable Book of the Year.
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Rating:  - hicok
A great writer. He uses such simple language to convey unique and thought-provoking ideas. He's a very raw poet, which works well for him. My only dislike is his need to blatantly repeat or reveal what message he wishes to give, as if he needed to sum things up in the end.
Rating:  - Craft and Accessibilty
Bob Hicok is a poet's poet, but that doesn't make his work any less accessible to poetry lovers and cross-genre readers. While meticulously crafted, Hicok's poems offer a colorful range of wide-open insights and images that stay and stay. "Heroin," one of this collection's most stunning poems (also anthologized in a recent Best American Poetry volume), is in itself worth the price of this book, plus tax, shipping, and delivery. PLUS SHIPPING lives up to the promise of Hicok's earlier book, ... Read More
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