Animal Soul (Contemporary Classics Poetry series) - Softcover

Hicok, Bob

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9781931229111: Animal Soul (Contemporary Classics Poetry series)

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ISBN 10: 1931229112 ISBN 13: 9781931229111

Publisher: Invisible Cities Press LLC, 2003

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Chosen alongside celebrated poets Louise Gl�ck 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.”

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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; and Plus Shipping. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and Ploughshares and in the Best American Poetry and Pushcart anthologies. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Review:

“A triumph of startling vision.” —Boston Review

“The best book of poems you are likely to read until Bob Hicok publishes another book.” — Passages North

“Bruised by experience, utterly alert to its desecrations, Bob Hicok’s splendid new book of poems—wry, witty, acerbic—flashes with a comic holiness, a secret, irrepressible urge to make something sacred out of contemporary life. I am moved and heartened by this skeptical book of descents that keeps seeking ways to find an enchanted light.” —Edward Hirsch

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