A Steady Exhale // Bob Hicok's Water Look Away (2023)

My friend

the artist

Tyler Barton

said the newest

poetry collection

from Bob Hicok

(who I interviewed

on this site

back in 2019)

felt “kinda

like a novel”

and I really

like that perspective.

It led to me

thinking about

Matthew Rohrer’s

The Others

and here we are.

I feel like

I read this

book

in a single

late-night breath.

A slow

steady

exhale.

A nice deviation

from Hicok’s

previous work,

while still packed

full of his

signature heart

and horror

and grief

and humor

and, again,

heart.

from Water Look Away via Copper Canyon Press