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Sex and Love and
Author: Bob Hicok
Year: 2016
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1000 KB
Language: English
Year: 2016
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1000 KB
Language: English
The most potent ingredient in virtually every one of Bob Hicoks compact wellturned poems is a laughter as old as humanity itselfThe New York Times Book ReviewHicoks poems are like boomerangs they jut out in wild associative directions yet find their way back to the root of the matter often in sincere and heartbreaking waysPublishers WeeklyIn Sex Love Bob Hicok attempts the impossible task of confronting love and its consequences in which everything is allowed minus forever Switching gracefully between witty confessions and blunt confrontations Hicok muses on age distance secret messages and of course sex Throughout poetry is discovered to be among our most effective tools to examine the delirium of making contactHotThe sexiest thing a woman has ever doneto or with or for mewhile wearing the loose breezeof a dress or standing inside its red zero on the floorwhile bending over and pulling her shorts downon a racquetball court or to reach the watershutoff valve behind the fridgeas Satiewhispers against our thighs or hummingher brains native tune as we touchthe smudged glass protecting extinct beetlesin a museumwith her lips swaddling my tongueor finger up my assis tell the truthwhich makes my wife the hottest womanIve ever knownher mouth erotic every timeshe speaksshe is an animal when it comes to sexand lovecomes to usin that she doesnt primpin front of the mirror of what she thinks I wanther to say or bethe only real fleshonly nakedthat mattershow she looks at meBob Hicoks poems have appeared in the New Yorker Poetry and the American Poetry Review His books have been awarded the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress and named a Notable Book of the Year by Booklist Hicok has worked as an automotive die designer and a computer system administrator He is currently teaching at Purdue University
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