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Today's poem is "My Francis Bacon essay"

from Green Mountains Review

Bob Hicok's newest book is Words for Empty and Words for Full (U of Pittsburgh P). His other books include This Clumsy Living (Pitt), which was awarded the 2008 Bobbin Prize from the Library of Congress; Insomnia Diary (Pitt); Animal Souls (Invisible Cities), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Plus Shipping (BOA); and The Legend of Light (U of Wisconsin P), which received the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and was named a 1997 ALA Booklist Notable Book of the Year. A recipient of Pushcart Prizes, a Guggenheim, and NEA Fellowships, he has been selected for inclusion in multiple volumes of BestAmerican Poetry. He is an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.

Other poems by Bob Hicok in Verse Daily:
March 15, 2012:   "Places that have become me" "Poor starling in the B concourse of Logan Airport. You do not..."
February 16, 2012:   "Words, what is the word, matter" "'You broke my kneecaps' makes more sense..."
January 21, 2010:   "Aubade with whales" "Kyle spiffed stiffs..."
August 25, 2009:   "Certainly Uncertain: a love of tone poem" "Here is the place I am thinking..."
July 4, 2009:   "Deeply Impersonal" "This is a good way to take life in. The eyes...."
May 25, 2009:   "Moving day" "When it's time, the hotels of Ardmore no longer interesting..."
February 16, 2009:   "Palsy" "Ignoring the obvious is most of manners...."
July 2, 2008:   "In a time of biblical references" "I've fallen behind. I have in fact..."
May 15, 2008:   "A wedding night" "A groom goes out with a pillow to where the sheep..."
December 20, 2007:   "A confluence of processes" "It was a kind of battery, the Earth..."
November 6, 2007:   "A celebration of lasting achievment" " The man who wrote "The Hokey Pokey" died...."
June 19, 2006:   "Love of Sport" " In the woods, place of tall and green, place of losing..."
June 15, 2006:   "Fall" " Trees and the white room filling with the resistance..."
March 21, 2006:   "Weather Report" " Cats are new to me is why I call them..."
June 21, 2005:  "The Personal Touch" "I have fifteen cloud stamps, it says on the back..."
November 25, 2004:  "Founder's day" "I introduced John Adams to the Pacific..."
March 8, 2004:  "Building a painting a home" "If I built a barn I'd build it right into the sky..."
February 17, 2004:  "Truth About Love" "I apologize for not being Gandhi or Tom..."
February 16, 2004:  "Shopping at the ocean" "Trying to save the bug she killed the bug..."
December 24, 2002:  "By their works" "Who cleaned up the Last Supper?..."
August 29, 2002:  "Sorting the Entanglements" "In my will the basement goes to the spiders...."
July 14, 2002:  "Whither Thou Goest" "Fish can have mad cow disease and I have a problem / with that...."

Books by Bob Hicok:

Other poems on the web by Bob Hicok:
Five poems
Two poems
Thirteen poems
"A History of Origami"
Thirty-one poems
"Wistful sounds like a brand of air freshener"
Two poems
Five poems
"The map maker's faith"
"the dream"
"my life with a gardener"
"a nature film"
Nine poems
"Root root root for the home team"
"Slow going"
"Repast and future"
"My Career as a Director"
Three poems
Three poems
Three poems
"Bedtime Story"
"Jornando del Muerto"
"Twins"
Eight poems
Eight poems
"Alzeimer's"
"The Quiet Americans"
"Only somewhat like a carousel"
"Ink"

Bob Hicok according to Wikipedia.

About Green Mountains Review:

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Green Mountains Review * 337 College Hill * Johnson State College * Johnson, Vermont 05656 Editor: Neil Shepard

Other poems from Green Mountains Review in Verse Daily:
September 2, 2011:   "What the Camera Says to the Voice" by Suzanne Wise
August 29   "So When She Looks at Her Reflection" by Patty Seyburn
August 25   "Found" by Stephanie Levin
April 18, 2011:   "Why I'm Not Coming to My Funeral" by Sue D. Burton
April 14, 2011:   "The Crowd at the Gates" by Stephen Dunn
April 12, 2011:   "Spun" by Anna Maria Hong
April 11, 2011:   "Calla lily, shameless" by Sandra Gilbert
November 14, 2010:   Two poems by Ellen Doré Watson
July 30, 2009:   "The Sumerians" by James Doyle
July 29, 2009:   "The Velocity of Love" by Kate Gleason
July 28, 2009:   "Tale" by Anna Lowe
June 12, 2008:   "The Rescue" by Wayne Miller
December 2, 2007:   "Flying Over America" by J.P. White
December 1, 2007:   "Visit" by David Huddle
November 30, 2007:   "Inquiry #3" by Susan Rich
November 28, 2007:   "History" by Betsy Sholl
February 2, 2007:   "In Retirement" by Ronald Wallace
January 31, 2007:   "Travel" by Kevin Pilkington
January 29, 2007:   "Lost Tense" by Stephen Malin
February 25, 2006:   "Brackets Make a Racket" by Maurya Simon
February 24, 2006:   "The Garden of Languages" by Jeanne Larsen
July 24, 2005:   "Driving Home, I see a Rothko Painting in the Distance and Pull Over to Give It a Lift" by Jason Koo
July 21, 2005:   "Eddy" Carol Frost
July 18, 2005:   "A Little Flying Over Americaing Music" Betsy Sholl
March 17, 2005:  "From the Road" by Eamon Grennan
March 16, 2005:  "The Sound of a Train" by Kathleen Flenniken
June 25, 2004:  "Dispersal" by Katherine Soniat
June 16, 2004:  "Codeine" by Christof Scheele
January 19, 2004:  "Kind of Blue" by Angie Estes
October 24, 2003:  "Mute Swan" by Louise Mathias
June 13, 2003:  "Driving Through the Valley" by Lynne Knight
June 11, 2003:  "Journey to the East" by Baron Wormser
March 17, 2003:  "Adolescence" by Gabriel Gudding

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