Insomnia Diary /
"The most potent ingredient in virtually every one of Bob Hicok's compact, well-turned poems is a laughter as old as humanity itself, a sweet waggery that suggests there's almost no problem that can't be solved by this poet's gentle humor."--New York Times Book Review
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2004]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Bottom of the ocean
- Small purchase
- The semantics of flowers on Memorial Day
- Dropping the euphemism
- Calling him back from layoff
- My life with a gardener
- An old story
- The documentary art
- Becoming bird
- Another awkward stage of convalescence
- The bald truth
- After working sixty hours again for what reason
- Oath to my former life
- Spirit ditty of no fax-line dial tone
- Insomnia diary
- Go Greyhound
- Finally opening the anthology to Kunitz
- Free-floating anxiety sounds like a pretty balloon
- ""Tuesday�s walk""""1935""; ""American Studies""; ""Sur Coast diary""; ""Capital crime""; ""Now and then I am direct""; ""Growing at the speed of fashion""; ""Bars poetica""; ""Translator�s note""; ""Echo""; ""Mortal shower""; ""Meteor shower""; ""Building a painting a home""; ""Commission by attrition""; ""Goodbye in the shape of a knot""; ""The edge""; ""Radical neck""; ""It�s not so much the heat as the stupidity""; ""Cure for the common cold""; ""Cutting edge""; ""Truth about love""; ""Shopping at the ocean""; ""Acknowledgments""