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title: "Elegy Owed"
brand: "bob hicok"
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# Elegy Owed

**Brand:** bob hicok
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- **What is this?** Elegy Owed by bob hicok
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## Customer Reviews

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    Brave New Work by a Beloved Evocative Poet
  

*by C***Z on Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2013*

I am, admittedly, a huge Bob Hicok fan. I have all of his book (some of which I've previously reviewed on Amazon) and have felt privileged to watch his work evolve over the years in real. And in "Elegy Owed," his latest collection, he seems to have taken an enormous leap!I remember seeing a Mark Rothko retrospective in DC when I was younger, and -- knowing how his painting style was going to end up -- marveling as the timeline the exhibition allowed me to watch the figuration in this paintings getting slighter and slighter, as the evocative color wash backgrounds get bolder and bolder. When he finally removed figures from his paintings altogether, his paintings pulsed and glow with pure color and emotion. You didn't need to understand what he was trying to express with the painting, but rather needed to just open yourself up to what it evoked in you.I thought of this a lot while reading "Elegy Owed," as Hicok seems to have taken a big step away from traditional narrative work. This isn't to say this pieces don't sing with narrative elements, but images and tones are sometimes allowed to shimmer and glow without full context, and it is scary and delicious to allow this sorts of unmoored poems find a place in our reader hearts.While the book is infused with themes of death, loss and betrayal, Hicok's stunning lines and turns, as well as his constant self-awareness ("We didn't jump-this is a poem" he writes in a poem titled "To speak somewhat figuratively about S.") still very much electrify. I feel in love with his work again and again with stanzas like "At the funeral, she wore a tricycle being pushed by her father / when she was five, her legs out to the side. // That's only true in this poem, like the cloud I'm looking at / is only true in this sky. / In all other skies, this cloud is a lie."Or "When my father dies / naturally I'll want to call him / and tell him my father has died, he won't pick up, I'll decide / he's out raking leaves, that leaves are sullen, that I'm hungry / that my father hasn't died, and when he finally answers, / I'll stand in the kitchen wondering why I called, most / of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich completed, / all that will remain is for the parts to be joined, the jelly / to the peanut butter wing, I'll tell my father / I'm cooking, he'll nod and I'll hear him nod."I mean, my stars, it just knocks me out! And those are just two examples!Fans of his more narrative and concrete work should know there are a lot of mysteries in this book that won't be answered for you -- but that's a part of its delight, and a part of Hicok's wonderful journey as an artist. With "Elegy Owed" we are given all the bright and dark washes of his every evolving emotions, and it is a beautiful thing.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A unique style and voice does it again
  

*by J***F on Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2013*

Hicok is sort of a modern, American Larkin - that is he's dry, a bit droll, but probably a bit loopier, a bit more playful with language and image, but less of a diction-maven than Philip. (I don't mean that last part in anyway to degrade Hicok's work, as I'm sure it's a stylistic choice he's consciously made.) Anyway, I love his work, and his admirable mix of the profound with the tragicomic. Hopefully Bob remains prolific, as I plan on continuing to follow his poetic journey wherever he goes. Thanks for another great set, Mr. Hicok.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Another Excellent Book from Bob Hicok
  

*by A***. on Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2013*

As always, Bob Hicok's poems come at you with humor and charm without losing the essential seriousness of the subjects he's exploring.  I lived through these poems as if I were there, witnessing and feeling everything he described.  In short, this is the best collection I have read so far in 2013.

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