Bøger af Bob Hicok

"A new collection of poems by Bob Hicok"--

Despite an America flooded with dangerous hypocrises, Bob Hicok celebrates the unapologetically sentimental wonder of living at all.

Hicok’s leaps of verbal play, incisive frankness, and wild imagination engage the often-fraught discussions of monogamous love and sexuality

Red Rover Red Rover, Bob Hicok¿s latest book, is a tender and comedic exploration of humanity¿s highs and lows.

"...seamlessly, miraculously, [Hicok's] eye imbues even the dreadful with beauty and meaning."--The New York Times Book Review

"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

I watched the young couple walk into the tall grass and close the door of summer behind them, their heads floating on the golden tips, on waves that flock and break like starlings changing their minds in the middle of changing their minds, I saw their hips lie down inside those birds, inside the day of shy midnight, they kissed like waterfalls.

Bob Hicok's fluid ability to shift moods, the richness of his visual palette, and his idiosyncratic use of language fill these pages. His fourth book, Insomnia Diary is filled with Hicok's characteristic edgy, brazen, provocative, and meditative poems.

These poems, reflecting a kind of severity, set out to produce a morally accurate view of the mundane world they inhabit. The poet also, however, keeps his eye on the larger view - on megalopolis, and also what he himself calls, ""the heart's jazz"".