Patrick Hicks / Library of the Mind: New & Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

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For readers new to the work of Patrick Hicks, Library of the Mind is a phenomenal primer on his singular voice and vision. They will discover a writer who is tender-hearted, clear-headed, deeply human. For long-time fans like myself, this collection offers one poet’s life-long meditation and interior monologue with the world—along with new poems that gesture toward the restless and loved world into which Hicks continues to write his way. This is a poet with a wide angle of vision, one that travels experiential time zones with grace and ease, exploring the interconnected nature of the past, present, and yet-to-be—all of it drafted with a deft hand, and a capacious heart.”
-Brian Turner
author of Here, Bullet and My Life as a Foreign Country

“Library of the Mind contains brilliant, powerful, intelligent poems that span decades and continents. They take us on both interior and exterior journeys, providing us with evocative portraits of love and family and place … this book is one to read again and again. What an impressive treasure this is.”
-Maria Mazziotti Gillan
American Book Award winner

“I’ve been reading Patrick Hicks's lovely poems for years, and Library of the Mind gathers the very best of those years. And, too, with the inclusion of an ample selection of new work, Hicks extends his poetic reach. Always careful, always sure and gentle, Hicks delves here into history, his own and that of the nation, and hauls up worry and fear and persistence in the face of it all, the very words we need to hear, though they ‘flutter away, / like leaves on a river of wind.’”
-Joe Wilkins
author of Fall Back Down When I Die and When We Were Birds

“Reading straight through Patrick Hicks’s new book, Library of the Mind, is like reading a trans-Atlantic memoir, noticing how the style changes along the way and how the narrative voice expands as the story (and the family) grows. It is pure pleasure to wander through Patrick Hicks’s Library, which is also an atlas of London, a compendium of knowledge on various subjects including adoption, a portrait of a “beautiful boy,” and a memento mori. In the title poem, the speaker wonders if we ‘ascend into a library’ when we die; Patrick’s book surely makes us hope it is so.”
-Joyce Sutphen
author of Naming the Stars and Modern Love & Other Myths

These Salmon Poetry books have come into us unused and unopened but due to the storage in their last location they might have some scuffs or marks on the edges of the pages