{"product_id":"9781556594366","title":"Elegy Owed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Book Critics Circle Award finalist.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003ePaterson Award for Literary Excellence.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What Hicok's getting at [in \u003ci\u003eElegy Owed\u003c\/i\u003e ] is both the necessity and the inadequacy of language, the very bluntness of which (talk about a paradox) makes it all the more essential that we engage with it as a precision instrument, a force of clarity, of (at times) awful grace.\"— \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[A] fluid, absorbing new collection. . . . Highly recommended.\"— \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e , starred review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen asked in an interview \"What would Bob Hicok launch from a giant sling shot?\" he answered \"Bob Hicok.\" \u003ci\u003eElegy Owed\u003c\/i\u003e —Hicok's eighth book—is an existential game of Twister in which the rules of mourning are broken and salvaged, and \"you can never step into the same not going home again twice.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom \"Notes for a time capsule\":\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe twig in. I'll put the twig in I carry in my pocket\u003cbr\u003eand my pocket and my eye, my left eye. A cup\u003cbr\u003eof the Ganges and the bacteria from shit\u003cbr\u003ein the Ganges and the anyway ablutions of rainbow-\u003cbr\u003erobed Hindus in the Ganges. The dawnline of the mountain\u003cbr\u003ewith contrail above like an accent in a language\u003cbr\u003etoo large for my mouth. A mirror\u003cbr\u003eso whoever opens the past will see themselves\u003cbr\u003ein the past and fall back from their face\u003cbr\u003espeaking to them across centuries or hours\u003cbr\u003eor the nearnevers . . . \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eBob Hicok\u003c\/b\u003e 's worked as an automotive die designer and a computer system administrator before becoming an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech. He lives in Blacksburg, Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48153738281200,"sku":"9781556594366","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556594366_p0.jpg?v=1763755027","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556594366","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}