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Insomnia Diary (Pitt Poetry)

by Bob Hicok

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

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.

Review:

"Hicok is funny as hell, in Blake's sense of the infernal: irreverent, anarchic, undeceived. His bracing ill humor is a vehicle for outrage, longing, tenderness, and a sly cynicism that is the necessary counterbalance to a tenacious sense of hope. He is one of our premiere anatomists of contemporary American life, and a wildly refreshing, necessary poet." Mark Doty

Review:

"[Hicok] writes with an honest man's happy discontent. . . . His poems stand on that inconvenient ground where the absurd and romantic visions battle for the voice and transmit the full joyful and afflicted human creature. He is one of the finest poets to have emerged in the last ten years." Rodney Jones

About the Author

Bob Hicok teaches creative writing at Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, and his poetry has appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry, Paris Review, and the New Yorker. He is the author of The Legend of Light, which won the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, and Animal Soul, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780822958420
Author:
Hicok, Bob
Publisher:
University of Pittsburgh Press
Location:
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
American poetry
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series:
Pitt Poetry Series
Series Volume:
GTR-584
Publication Date:
March 2004
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
86
Dimensions:
9.12x5.58x.27 in. .34 lbs.

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