Words for Empty and Words for Full (Pitt Poetry Series)

"I can't really claim responsibility for this recommendation. I want to, because I love this book, but I can't. I've been polling customers about their favorite contemporary poets and I'd never heard of Bob Hicok before someone recommended him to me a few weeks ago.

I'm a bit giddy about this guy's poems. I haven't fallen this hard for a poet since I met e.e. cummings in 9th grade. Not that Hicok and cummings have too much in common - - it's just they give me the same kind of feeling. A take-out-all-his-books-from-the-library, I-hope-he's-written-a-poem-about-everything kind of feeling.

It's a good feeling. I recommend it (and this book) to you."

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