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- This Clumsy Living
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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Winner of the 2008 Bobbit National Poetry Prize.
“Few others in contemporary poetry are so brilliantly able to combine wit and weight, to charge the language so it virtually glows in the dark. Hicok's poems just plain rock. They rock because they are gorgeous. They rock because they are sad and turn on the radio. They dance our 'clumsy living' with our shadows and our isolations to a music that always, always remembers the original delight in which 'the feel of things, if [we] cherish, helps [us] live / more like a minute than a clock.'”--Beckian Fritz Goldberg
“Few others in contemporary poetry are so brilliantly able to combine wit and weight, to charge the language so it virtually glows in the dark. Hicok's poems just plain rock. They rock because they are gorgeous. They rock because they are sad and turn on the radio. They dance our 'clumsy living' with our shadows and our isolations to a music that always, always remembers the original delight in which 'the feel of things, if [we] cherish, helps [us] live / more like a minute than a clock.'”--Beckian Fritz Goldberg
Table of Contents
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- Twenty-three windows
- Absolution
- pp. 4-5
- Reparations
- p. 8
- Her my body
- pp. 9-11
- Team effort
- p. 14
- The collector
- p. 16
- Waiting for my foot to ring
- pp. 17-18
- Twenty-eight fathers
- My career as a director
- pp. 28-30
- My iron age
- pp. 31-34
- My new neighbor
- pp. 35-36
- My faith-based initiative
- pp. 37-41
- Happy anniversary
- pp. 42-43
- A letter: the Genesis poem
- pp. 44-46
- Twenty-one rivers
- Two living wills
- pp. 50-51
- Switching to deer time
- pp. 54-56
- Solstice: voyeur
- p. 57
- Documenting a decision
- pp. 58-62
- Twenty-three skies
- Angels of mercy
- p. 65
- Failures in meditation
- pp. 66-67
- The new math
- p. 68
- A theory of art as respiration
- pp. 70-76
- Thirty-two dreams
- The personal touch
- p. 79
- My last factory job
- pp. 80-81
- Green on the day
- pp. 86-87
- Full flight
- pp. 88-89
- Theoretical love
- pp. 92-93
- The active reader
- pp. 94-95
- Spam leaves an aftertaste
- pp. 96-97
- My ever after
- pp. 98-100
- Acknowledgments
- p. 101
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822990642
Related ISBN(s)
9780822959533
MARC Record
OCLC
608086376
Pages
109
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No