Animal Soul (Contemporary Classics Poetry series) - Hardcover

Hicok, Bob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0967968380 ISBN 13: 9780967968384

Publisher: Invisible Cities Press LLC, 2001

Synopsis

Chosen alongside celebrated poets Louise Glück and Czeslaw Milosz, Bob Hicok’s Animal Soul was the standout surprise of the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award nominations. According to author David Wojahn, a three-time winner of the Pushcart Prize, this collection of poetry “is the best collection yet by a poet who has become one of the most individual and necessary voices of his generation. An almost prophetic rage seems to inhabit these poems, which present us with a speaker who is tender and brutally rueful by turns. Bob Hicok asks to be a voice of conscience in a conscience-less world. And, like all true prophets, his rage and consternation in the end transform themselves into a form of prayer, what one of his poems calls a ‘mad . . . devotion.’ Hicok is able to instruct and console us, and that is a very rare thing indeed.”

About this title

From the Author:

Bob Hicok is the author of three collections of poems, including The Legend of Light, the winner of the 1995 Feliz Pollak Prize in poetry and an ALA Booklist Notable Book of the Year. His work has appeared in literary publications such as the Iowa Review, Poetry, Kenyon Review, and Prairie Schooner. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Review:

“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


“The best collection yet by a poet who has become one of the most individual and necessary voices of his generation. An almost prophetic rage seems to inhabit these poems, which present us with a speaker who is tender and brutally rueful by turns.” —David Wojahn

About this edition

• Publisher: Invisible Cities Press LLC
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0967968380
• ISBN 13: 9780967968384
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 80