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Water Look Away

Name: Water Look Away
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Bob Hicok

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Bob Hicok's Water Look Away is an experimental conversation with the highest and lowest facets of humanity. "Once a man who sometimes wanted to kill himself loved a woman who sometimes wanted to live." In Bob Hicok's Water Look Away , we witness a brilliant poet enter a dark space and attempt to write himself out again. Told in experimental forms, from a range of perspectives— a wife who commits suicide, a husband left behind — this raw collection reads like a novella and wrestles with loss as it complicates the grief process. Working backwards from acceptance to explore depression and anger, heartbreak and remorse, often with great tenderness, Water Look Away offers pages of insight that will make you reach for a pen. Here, poetry embalms a marriage–an experimental affair, a series of miscarriages, a red bed painted on a wall. When the retelling of their first meeting morphs from "recounting" to...

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Year:

2022

Publisher:

Copper Canyon Press

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

1556596502

ISBN:

1556596502