Insomnia Diary.

Intro -- Contents -- Bottom of the ocean -- Small purchase -- The semantics of flowers on Memorial Day -- Dropping the euphemism -- Calling him back from layoff -- My life with a gardener -- An old story -- The documentary art -- Becoming bird -- Another awkward stage of convalescence -- The bald truth -- After working sixty hours again for what reason -- Oath to my former life -- Spirit ditty of no fax-line dial tone -- Insomnia diary -- Go Greyhound -- Finally opening the anthology to Kunitz -- Free-floating anxiety sounds like a pretty balloon -- Tuesday's walk -- 1935 -- American Studies -- Sur Coast diary -- Capital crime -- Now and then I am direct -- Growing at the speed of fashion -- Bars poetica -- Translator's note -- Echo -- Mortal shower -- Meteor shower -- Building a painting a home -- Commission by attrition -- Goodbye in the shape of a knot -- The edge -- Radical neck -- It's not so much the heat as the stupidity -- Cure for the common cold -- Cutting edge -- Truth about love -- Shopping at the ocean -- Acknowledgments.

Bob Hicok's fluid ability to shift moods, the richness of his visual palette, and his idiosyncratic use of language fill these pages. His fourth book, Insomnia Diary is filled with Hicok's characteristic edgy, brazen, provocative, and meditative poems.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.