You Who Took the Boat Out by Hicks, Alison

You Who Took the Boat Out (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780998087214)

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Format: Paperback
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You Who Took the Boat Out by Hicks, Alison

You Who Took the Boat Out

$17.15
You Who Took the Boat Out by Hicks, Alison

You Who Took the Boat Out

$17.15
Format: Paperback
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A woman in middle-age takes a canoe out onto the water at night and must discern obstacles barely visible to keep her craft afloat. Her reward is a vision of stars transformed as they are reflected back through water. Her guide is the loon, whose red eye is capable of seeing underwater, and whose wail echoes and beckons. An adolescent whose mother has become ill must traverse the big country she finds inside herself to find a life worth living. A daughter mourns a father. In this collection, Alison Hicks looks beneath the surface of our emotional lives to murky shapes: the twists and turns we are unable to predict, the scrape of love and the experience of being lost, the whimsy of our fantasies, visitation by spirit guides of myth and legend, things we try to keep secret and yet seek to reveal, the hurt that has happened and the tasks to be undertaken.

Author: Alison Hicks
ISBN-10: 0998087211
ISBN-13: 9780998087214
Publisher: Unsolicited Press
Language: English
Published: 02/25/2017
Pages: 78
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.16d
By Alison Hicks
By Alison Hicks
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Alison Hicks is the author of full-length poetry collection Kiss (PS Books, 2011), chapbook Falling Dreams (Finishing Line Press, 2006), novella Love: A Story of Images (AWA Press, 2004), and an anthology, Prompted (PS Books, 2010). Her work has appeared in Eclipse, Fifth Wednesday, Gargoyle, Licking River Review, The Ledge, Louisville Review, Passager, Permafrost, Sanskrit, Whiskey Island, and other journals. Her poem "Color" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Green Hills Literary Lantern. Awards include the 2011 Philadelphia City Paper Poetry Prize and two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowships. She is founder of Greater Philadelphia Wordshop Studio, which offers community-based writing workshops. She lives with her husband and son in Havertown, Pennsylvania.

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