Red Rover Red Rover
Published on 18. February 2021
100 pages
978-1-61932-230-1 (ISBN)
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Bob Hicok's Red Rover Red Rover is joyous and macabre, hopeful and morbid, caring and critical. These poems are apocalyptic in tone but tender in their depiction of dying animals, disappearing water, raging fires, and the humans to blame. He calls attention to the dire costs of modern conveniences and begs for our willingness to change. No subject is too high or low for his wide-sweeping gaze, a comfort with extremes that gives his work the quality of an embrace. Threads of humor, romance, and kindness suggest America's capacity to transcend the disastrous present: "heaven's everywhere / someone needs a place to rest // and someone else says, / Come in." Hicok presents a high-stakes game of survival and connection.
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02/2021
Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
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Bob Hicok's ninth collection, Hold, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2018. A two-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and recipient of the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress, he's also been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and eight Pushcart Prizes. His poems have been selected for inclusion in nine volumes of The Best American Poetry. He teaches at Virginia Tech.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Note to the Reader
- Dedication
- Contents
- A Partial List of a Life
- For the Sad Wallendas
- The Feast
- The Life of the Rough Night
- Prepare for Takeoff
- Postcard
- Refraction
- Inside Job
- A Nature Documentary
- Yes This Again
- A Lament, Pep Talk, and Challenge Walk into a Bar
- Interlude
- Under Construction
- On having a Month Off
- Falling
- Plans for the Day
- Family Matters
- Buzz
- The Description I Carry in My Wallet in Case Eve Goes Missing and I Go Mute
- Good Fortune
- No Suicide is not an Island
- Once More, from the Top
- More than Whispers, Less than Rumors
- On the Rocks
- Pedagogy
- Remedy
- Silo City
- Weather Report
- Hush Little Baby
- Genuflection
- Amsterdam: Murmuration
- I Keep Making the Mistake of Approaching Solitude Alone
- My Tao
- On the One Hand
- On the Other Hand
- The Thing Is
- Here, Now, Gone
- Long-distance Call
- Having Our Cake and Being Eaten by It, Too
- No You Go
- Report from the Field
- Career Day
- Kriah
- Zoom
- Looking in the Mirror
- Love Love Me Do
- After You, or What Would Whitman, Emerson, or Merwin Do?
- Stops and starts
- I Keep a Weather Station in My Head
- Every Machine Has Its Parts
- America: A Primer
- The Book of The Way: A Song of Now
- When Illness is Cure
- O My Pa-Pa
- Meditation on Dust
- Rapture
- Ode to Now
- Worship
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Also by Bob Hicok
- Copyright
- Special Thanks
