Annal:2008 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Bobbitt National Prize in the year 2008. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- <–2006
- Bobbitt National Prize
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- 2008 Bobbitt Prize winner
- Score: 10.58
“Few others in contemporary poetry are so brilliantly able to combine wit and weight, to charge the language so it virtually glows in the dark. Hicok’s poems just plain rock. They rock because they are gorgeous. They rock because they are sad and turn on the radio. They dance our ‘clumsy living’ with our shadows and our isolations to a music that always, always remembers the original delight in which ‘the feel of things, if [we] cherish, helps [us] live / more like a minute than a clock.’”—Beckian Fritz Goldberg
