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Bob Hicok

Buddha alarm clocks, Shiva spice racks, dying gardeners, gunned-down prostitutes, suicidal visionaries, and a god "who is shorter/and a better cook than your God" populate these poems that arrive Plus Shipping. Demanding our perception of the world in payment, Hicok shows us that time has "bones we can count/and a soul made temporal by math."

Book Details

  • Publisher: BOA Editions
  • Publish Date: Oct 1st, 1998
  • Pages: 100
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.00in - 5.99in - 0.37in - 0.36lb
  • EAN: 9781880238677
  • Categories: American - GeneralAnthropology - Cultural & SocialSubjects & Themes - Religious

Praise for this book

"Mr. Hicok's gift lies somewhere between those of the surgeon and the god of the foundry and convalescent home: seamlessly, miraculously, his judicious eye imbues even the dreadful with beauty and meaning.."-The New York Times.


"Imagine spring's thaw, your brother said, / each house a small rain, the eaves muttering / like river and you the white skin / the world sheds, your flesh unfolded // and absorbed. You walked Newark together ..." -- "Heroin"