Insomnia Diary (Pitt Poetry Series) - Softcover

Hicok, Bob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822958422 ISBN 13: 9780822958420

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004

Synopsis

The punchlines of poems evolve into seriousness, and thoughtful meditation is transformed into comedy in this fourth collection of poems that demonstrates the writer's fluid talent to shift mood and use language for effect. Original.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"Hicok is funny as hell, in Blake's sense of the infernal: irreverent, anarchic, undeceived. His bracing ill humor is a vehicle for outrage, longing, tenderness, and a sly cynicism that is the necessary counterbalance to a tenacious sense of hope. He is one of our premiere anatomists of contemporary American life, and a wildly refreshing, necessary poet."-Mark Doty

"[Hicok] writes with an honest man's happy discontent. . . . His poems stand on that inconvenient ground where the absurd and romantic visions battle for the voice and transmit the full joyful and afflicted human creature. He is one of the finest poets to have emerged in the last ten years."-Rodney Jones

"The sophisticated jester of these soliloquies, dumbfounded by the simplicity and complexity of life, is on a hang glider headed straight for Olympus."-Mary Ruefle

About the Author:

Bob Hicok teaches creative writing at Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, and his poetry has appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry, Paris Review, and the New Yorker. He is the author of The Legend of Light, which won the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, and Animal Soul, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0822958422
• ISBN 13: 9780822958420
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96