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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464371703321

Autore

Hicok Bob <1960->

Titolo

Words for empty and words for full / / Bob Hicok

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

0-8229-9093-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (128 p.)

Collana

Pitt Poetry Series

Disciplina

808.1

Soggetti

Poetry

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Poems.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""In these times""; ""After the procedure""; ""Some things that come together in coming apart""; ""See side""; ""Life""; ""Scenic Thanatos""; ""BRCA1""; ""Endangered species""; ""A wedding night""; ""Kinesis""; ""Punk, or a mouthful of sweat glands""; ""Methodical""; ""Redoubling our efforts""; ""This, that needs to be done""; ""Keeping track""; ""Man to man""; ""A trinity of goods""; ""Watchful""; ""So I know""; ""Whimper""; ""Mute""; ""Troubled times""; ""Terra incognita""; ""This day as a version of the last""; ""In the loop""; ""Shorn""

""Hope is a thing with feathers that smacks into a window""""To find the new world""; ""Meditation on a false spring""; ""Between us""; ""RU486""; ""a history of origami""; ""Minutes of the minutes""; ""In the future, the future will be the past""; ""Call me a lyre, I dare you""; ""Weebles wobble but they don�t fall down""; ""Making the list I will never make""; ""Getting in line""; ""Backward""; ""Breathing amber""; ""Learning to swim""; ""Tree of life""; ""From the history of grade school""; ""Stop-loss""; ""you are here""; ""Foreign dispatch""; ""For the time capsule""; ""Basic physics""

""All law enforcement is local""""First do no harm""; ""An account of lately""; ""A shopkeeper�s story""; ""One interpretation of your silence""; ""Go __________""; ""Connect""; ""Epithalamium""; ""Do you too always feel differently the same?""; ""People who live in stones should cast glass houses""; ""A primer""; ""Acknowledgments""



Sommario/riassunto

"As always with a Bob Hicok book, fascinating and a book you sort of can't help but pick up and suddenly, two hours later, find yourself having read straight through. I can think of just about no contemporary poets who publish such consistently great work." -Corduroy Books   "Bob Hicok's poetry is a fleeting comfort, a temporary solace from the chaos of the world. Smart, honest, powerfully inventive, his writing asks the biggest questions while acknowledging that there are no answers beyond the imposed structure of the page." -Los Angeles Times on This Clumsy Living   "The most potent ingredi