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 new collection. . . . Highly recommended." Library Journal , starred review When asked in an inter