Insomnia Diary
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 palette, and his idiosyncratic use of language fill the pages of Insomnia Diary. The fourth collection of poetry from this former automotive die designer delivers more of the cunning brilliance that has become Hicok's hallmark.
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Insomnia Diary
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 palette, and his idiosyncratic use of language fill the pages of Insomnia Diary. The fourth collection of poetry from this former automotive die designer delivers more of the cunning brilliance that has become Hicok's hallmark.
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Insomnia Diary

Insomnia Diary

by Bob Hicok
Insomnia Diary

Insomnia Diary

by Bob Hicok

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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 palette, and his idiosyncratic use of language fill the pages of Insomnia Diary. The fourth collection of poetry from this former automotive die designer delivers more of the cunning brilliance that has become Hicok's hallmark.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780822990925
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 03/14/2004
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 96
File size: 225 KB

About the Author

Bob Hicok is associate professor of English at Virginia Tech University. He is the author of This Clumsy Living, Insomnia Diary, Animal Soul (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Plus Shipping, and The Legend of Light. Hicok is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA Fellowships, the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Poetry Prize from the Library of Congress, the Felix Pollak Prize, the Jerome J. Shestack Prize, and four Pushcart Prizes. His poems have appeared in five volumes of Best American Poetry.

Table of Contents

Contents Bottom of the ocean Small purchase The semantics of flowers on Memorial Day Dropping the euphemism Calling him back from layoff My life with a gardener An old story The documentary art Becoming bird Another awkward stage of convalescence The bald truth After working sixty hours again for what reason Oath to my former life Spirit ditty of no fax-line dial tone Insomnia diary Go Greyhound Finally opening the anthology to Kunitz Free-floating anxiety sounds like a pretty balloon Tuesday’s walk 1935 American Studies Sur Coast diary Capital crime Now and then I am direct Growing at the speed of fashion Bars poetica Translator’s note Echo Mortal shower Meteor shower Building a painting a home Commission by attrition Goodbye in the shape of a knot The edge Radical neck It’s not so much the heat as the stupidity Cure for the common cold Cutting edge Truth about love Shopping at the ocean Acknowledgments
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