Water Look Away

Bob Hicok’s Water Look Away is an experimental conversation with the highest and lowest facets of humanity.

“Once a man who sometimes wanted to kill himself

loved a woman who sometimes wanted to live.”

In Bob Hicok’s Water Look Away, we witness a brilliant poet enter a dark space and attempt to write himself out again. Told in experimental forms, from a range of perspectives— a wife who commits suicide, a husband left behind — this raw collection reads like a novella and wrestles with loss as...