{"product_id":"elegy-owed-book-bob-hicok-9781556594380","title":"Elegy Owed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Book Critics Circle Award finalist.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaterson Award for Literary Excellence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"What Hicok's getting at [in \u003ci\u003eElegy Owed\u003c\/i\u003e] is both the necessity and the inadequacy of language, the very bluntness of which (talk about a paradox) makes it all the more essential that we engage with it as a precision instrument, a force of clarity, of (at times) awful grace.\"--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"[A] fluid, absorbing new collection. . . . Highly recommended.\"--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen asked in an interview \"What would Bob Hicok launch from a giant sling shot?\" he answered \"Bob Hicok.\" \u003ci\u003eElegy Owed\u003c\/i\u003e--Hicok's eighth book--is an existential game of Twister in which the rules of mourning are broken and salvaged, and \"you can never step into the same not going home again twice.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Notes for a time capsule\":\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe twig in. I'll put the twig in I carry in my pocket\u003cbr\u003e and my pocket and my eye, my left eye. A cup\u003cbr\u003e of the Ganges and the bacteria from shit\u003cbr\u003e in the Ganges and the anyway ablutions of rainbow-\u003cbr\u003e robed Hindus in the Ganges. The dawnline of the mountain\u003cbr\u003e with contrail above like an accent in a language\u003cbr\u003e too large for my mouth. A mirror\u003cbr\u003e so whoever opens the past will see themselves\u003cbr\u003e in the past and fall back from their face\u003cbr\u003e speaking to them across centuries or hours\u003cbr\u003e or the nearnevers . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBob Hicok\u003c\/b\u003e's worked as an automotive die designer and a computer system administrator before becoming an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech. He lives in Blacksburg, Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49516946456849,"sku":"GOR013331626","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50495203442961,"sku":"CIN1556594380VG","price":10.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51037076357393,"sku":"NIN9781556594380","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52668173910289,"sku":"NLS9781556594380","price":18.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1556594380.jpg?v=1751212873","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/elegy-owed-book-bob-hicok-9781556594380","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}