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A review by arachne_reads
Elegy Owed by Bob Hicok
5.0
Hicok pulls all of the emotion into his poems with his juxtapositions of this thing and that thing. His poems are full of thingfulness. You can touch them. You can lick them. They taste all the ways you'd expect: sweet and bitter and salty and often like ink on paper.
In all honesty, I think Hicok is my favorite poet, and they way he takes images and lays them one next to another evoking all of the familiar losses I've experienced in my life rather astounds me.
I recommend taking this volume one poem at a time. Letting each one sit on your tongue, or against the drum of your brain's ear, for at least a little bit before taking in the next.
In all honesty, I think Hicok is my favorite poet, and they way he takes images and lays them one next to another evoking all of the familiar losses I've experienced in my life rather astounds me.
I recommend taking this volume one poem at a time. Letting each one sit on your tongue, or against the drum of your brain's ear, for at least a little bit before taking in the next.