About the Author

Bob Hicok is the author of another collection of poems, Bearing Witness. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he is an automotive die designer and computer system administrator. His poetry has appeared in many literary publications, including Boulevard, The Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and The Southern Review.

Reviews

"Bob Hicok's poems go out 'looking for what's least, ' but they also keep their eye, in these failing days of our century, on the large view, 'The term used / is megalopolis.' This vast expanse is his terrain, and the subject he ably studies there is--us, it turns out; or what he calls the 'heart's jazz.' He listens to that music most industriously."--Albert Goldbarth

"Hicok's poems have a kind of severity, a moral accuracy, that both chills and refreshes the spirit, along with a technical virtuosity intrinsic to the work. He writes of the mundane with a brio that speaks to the meaning of 'metaphysical' beyond the physical, into the realms of light."--Carolyn Kizer, Pollak Prize Citation

"The Legend of Light is a vivid, quirky, and deeply human book."--Thomas Lux