University of Wisconsin Press, 1995 Paper: 978-0-299-14914-7 Library of Congress Classification PS3558.I28L4 1995 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Whether Hicok is considering the reflection of human faces in the Vietnam War Memorial or the elements of a “Modern Prototype” factory, he prompts an icy realization that we may have never seen the world as it truly is. But his resilient voice and consistent perspective is neither blaming nor didactic, and ultimately enlightening. From the shadowed corners into which we dare not look clearly, Hicok makes us witness and hero of The Legend of Light.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Bob Hicok is the author of another collection of poems, Bearing Witness. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he is an automotive die designer and computer system administrator. His poetry has appeared in many literary publications, including Boulevard, The Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and The Southern Review.
REVIEWS
“Hicok’s poems have a kind of severity, a moral accuracy, that both chills and refreshes the spirit, along with a technical virtuosity intrinsic to the work. He writes of the mundane with a brio that speaks to the meaning of ‘metaphysical’: beyond the physical, into the realms of light.”—Carolyn Kizer, Pollak Prize Citation
“The Legend of Light is a vivid, quirky, and deeply human book.”—Thomas Lux
“Bob Hicok’s poems go out ‘looking for what’s least,’ but they also keep their eye, in these failing days of our century, on the large view, ‘The term used / is megalopolis.’ This vast expanse is his terrain, and the subject he ably studies there is—us, it turns out; or what he calls the ‘heart’s jazz.’ He listens to that music most industriously.”—Albert Goldbarth
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Killing
In Her Hands
Inside
Neighbor
Weather
Extreme Measures
Rivera's Golden Gate Mural
Prodigal
Surgery
Duke
Memory
Waiting
The Dead
Rearview Mirror
Eight
85
Alice Wakes at Two and Looks Out the Window
530 Lakewood
Ten Years Dry
AIDS
My Job as It Relates to Bruegel's Netherlandish Proverbs
Voladores
Traffic Jam
Random Events
Visiting the Wall
Ohmy
Divorce
Learning of “It”
Nigger
Nurse
Man of the House
The Shrine
Ice Storm
Front Porch, Listening
Forecast
A Night at Modern Prototype
Dogfish Mother
Your Daughter
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University of Wisconsin Press, 1995 Paper: 978-0-299-14914-7
Whether Hicok is considering the reflection of human faces in the Vietnam War Memorial or the elements of a “Modern Prototype” factory, he prompts an icy realization that we may have never seen the world as it truly is. But his resilient voice and consistent perspective is neither blaming nor didactic, and ultimately enlightening. From the shadowed corners into which we dare not look clearly, Hicok makes us witness and hero of The Legend of Light.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Bob Hicok is the author of another collection of poems, Bearing Witness. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he is an automotive die designer and computer system administrator. His poetry has appeared in many literary publications, including Boulevard, The Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and The Southern Review.
REVIEWS
“Hicok’s poems have a kind of severity, a moral accuracy, that both chills and refreshes the spirit, along with a technical virtuosity intrinsic to the work. He writes of the mundane with a brio that speaks to the meaning of ‘metaphysical’: beyond the physical, into the realms of light.”—Carolyn Kizer, Pollak Prize Citation
“The Legend of Light is a vivid, quirky, and deeply human book.”—Thomas Lux
“Bob Hicok’s poems go out ‘looking for what’s least,’ but they also keep their eye, in these failing days of our century, on the large view, ‘The term used / is megalopolis.’ This vast expanse is his terrain, and the subject he ably studies there is—us, it turns out; or what he calls the ‘heart’s jazz.’ He listens to that music most industriously.”—Albert Goldbarth
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Killing
In Her Hands
Inside
Neighbor
Weather
Extreme Measures
Rivera's Golden Gate Mural
Prodigal
Surgery
Duke
Memory
Waiting
The Dead
Rearview Mirror
Eight
85
Alice Wakes at Two and Looks Out the Window
530 Lakewood
Ten Years Dry
AIDS
My Job as It Relates to Bruegel's Netherlandish Proverbs
Voladores
Traffic Jam
Random Events
Visiting the Wall
Ohmy
Divorce
Learning of “It”
Nigger
Nurse
Man of the House
The Shrine
Ice Storm
Front Porch, Listening
Forecast
A Night at Modern Prototype
Dogfish Mother
Your Daughter
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