
Elegy Owed
National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.
Paterson Award for Literary Excellence.
"What Hicok''s getting at [in Elegy Owed] is both the necessity and the inadequacy of language, the very bluntness of which (talk about a paradox) makes it all the more essential that we engage with it as a precision instrument, a force of clarity, of (at times) awful grace."—Los Angeles Times
"[A] fluid, absorbing n...
National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.
Paterson Award for Literary Excellence.
"What Hicok''s getting at [in Elegy Owed] is both the necessity and the inadequacy of language, the very bluntness of which (talk about a paradox) makes it all the more essential that we engage with it as a precision instrument, a force of clarity, of (at times) awful grace."—Los Angeles Times
"[A] fluid, absorbing n...