Elegy Owed

by Bob Hicok

Book Overview

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.

Paterson Award for Literary Excellence.

"What Hicok's getting at in Elegy Owed] is both the necessity and the inadequacy of language, the very bluntness of which (talk about a paradox) makes it all the more essential that we engage with it as a precision instrument, a force of clarity, of (at times) awful grace."--Los Angeles Times

" A] fluid, absorbing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556594380
• ISBN13: 9781556594380
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"