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Chosen alongside celebrated poets Louise Glück and Czeslaw Milosz, Bob Hicok’s Animal Soul was the standout surprise of the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award nominations. According to author David Wojahn, a three-time winner of the Pushcart Prize, this collection of poetry “is the best collection yet by a poet who has become one of the most individual and necessary voices of his generation. An almost prophetic rage seems to inhabit these poems, which present us with a speaker who is tender and brutally rueful by turns. Bob Hicok asks to be a voice of conscience in a conscience-less world. And, like all true prophets, his rage and consternation in the end transform themselves into a form of prayer, what one of his poems calls a ‘mad . . . devotion.’ Hicok is able to instruct and console us, and that is a very rare thing indeed.”
| Whither Thou Goest | 3 | |
| To the Moon, Alice | 5 | |
| Sorting the Entanglements | 7 | |
| Vagina canticle | 9 | |
| Birth of a Saint | 11 | |
| Everyday Commerce | 13 | |
| How Origami was Invented | 15 | |
| Harms Way | 16 | |
| Neither Here nor There | 21 | |
| Rapture | 23 | |
| Ha'ish hu ha'ish | 25 | |
| What Fine Kindling the Homeless Make | 26 | |
| The Subjects' Exodus | 28 | |
| Perpetual Resurrection | 30 | |
| Magic | 32 | |
| Finally I Buy X-ray Glasses | 34 | |
| The Party | 37 | |
| Critique of Pure Unreason | 39 | |
| Headline: Clean-Sweep Clears Parks & Grates | 41 | |
| Pol Pot's Class Reunion | 43 | |
| 33 | 44 | |
| Cross Town | 46 | |
| A Small Blasphemy | 48 | |
| Season of Levitation | 49 | |
| An incidental report on my grandmother's divinity | 53 | |
| Monograph on the Walkers | 55 | |
| When Swearing at the Carpeting's Not Enough | 57 | |
| CPR | 59 | |
| Book Report | 60 | |
| Fairy Tale with Repetition | 62 | |
| Did I ever tell you about my love/hate relationship with confessional poetry? | 64 | |
| What Would Freud Say? | 66 | |
| A Little Science | 68 | |
| Once a green sky | 70 | |
| Acknowledgments | 72 |
Overview
Chosen alongside celebrated poets Louise Glück and Czeslaw Milosz, Bob Hicok’s Animal Soul was the standout surprise of the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award nominations. According to author David Wojahn, a three-time winner of the Pushcart Prize, this collection of poetry “is the best collection yet by a poet who has become one of the most individual and necessary voices of his generation. An almost prophetic rage seems to inhabit these poems, which present us with a speaker who is tender and brutally ...