Sex & Love &

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
Cover of the book Sex & Love & by Bob Hicok, Copper Canyon Press
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Author: Bob Hicok ISBN: 9781619321595
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press Publication: June 1, 2016
Imprint: Copper Canyon Press Language: English
Author: Bob Hicok
ISBN: 9781619321595
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publication: June 1, 2016
Imprint: Copper Canyon Press
Language: English

"The most potent ingredient in virtually every one of Bob Hicok's compact, well-turned poems is a laughter as old as humanity itself."-The New York Times Book Review

"Hicok's 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 ways."-Publishers Weekly

In 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 contact.

"Hot":

The sexiest thing a woman has ever done
to or with or for me-while wearing the loose breeze
of a dress or standing inside its red zero on the floor-
while bending over and pulling her shorts down
on a racquetball court or to reach the water
shutoff valve behind the fridge-as Satie
whispers against our thighs or humming
her brain's native tune as we touch
the smudged glass protecting extinct beetles
in a museum-with her lips swaddling my tongue
or finger up my ass-is tell the truth-
which makes my wife the hottest woman
I've ever known-her mouth erotic every time
she speaks-she is an animal when it comes to sex
and love-comes to us-in that she doesn't primp
in front of the mirror of what she thinks I want
her to say or be-the only real flesh-only naked
that matters––how she looks at me

Bob Hicok's 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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"The most potent ingredient in virtually every one of Bob Hicok's compact, well-turned poems is a laughter as old as humanity itself."-The New York Times Book Review

"Hicok's 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 ways."-Publishers Weekly

In 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 contact.

"Hot":

The sexiest thing a woman has ever done
to or with or for me-while wearing the loose breeze
of a dress or standing inside its red zero on the floor-
while bending over and pulling her shorts down
on a racquetball court or to reach the water
shutoff valve behind the fridge-as Satie
whispers against our thighs or humming
her brain's native tune as we touch
the smudged glass protecting extinct beetles
in a museum-with her lips swaddling my tongue
or finger up my ass-is tell the truth-
which makes my wife the hottest woman
I've ever known-her mouth erotic every time
she speaks-she is an animal when it comes to sex
and love-comes to us-in that she doesn't primp
in front of the mirror of what she thinks I want
her to say or be-the only real flesh-only naked
that matters––how she looks at me

Bob Hicok's 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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