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Words For Empty And Words For Full (2010)

by Bob Hicok(Favorite Author)

4.15 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

082296077X (ISBN13: 9780822960775)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

University of Pittsburgh Press

review 1: Look, we're going with 4 stars because,I politely leave--on a coffee tablein a coffee shop somewhere--any book that I don't likeby, say, page 15 or so.And Bob Hicok is oneof those poets I'm probablygoing to read, even whenhe's pissing me off...which he did a time or twoin this still wonderful book.Thing is? When he hits it,he connects the bat with the balllike few others who are out theretrying their best to play this game...Bottom line: I kept this bookfor my poetry shelf.That says a lot...
review 2: This book makes me wish that there were a 3 1/2 stars option.I'm a bit torn about this collection. It's about 1/3 longer than it should be. Hicok ruined one of my favorite poems of his, "Hope is a Thing with Feathers that Smacks Into a Window" by extending the end... moreing about 5 lines (I read the original version in an issue of Smartish Pace). And a lot of the politics in the book beats you over the head, even when you agree with most of it. Having said all that, at its best Hicok's work is brilliant, tender, beautiful, and hilarious. There are at least a dozen or so poems that are just perfect--and that's rare in any collection, even ones that are over 100 pages. less

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