Bob Hicok
Born in Michigan, Bob Hicok teaches at Virginia Tech and is the recipient of a Felix Pollak Prize for Poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA Fellowships in Literature. In 2013 his collection Elegy Owed (Copper Canyon Press) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Hicok is the author of seven other collections of poetry and is widely published and anthologized. He has received six Pushcart Prizes. "Local History" first appeared in Shenandoah 56/3.
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Local History
On Halloween I met a neighbor from across the valley. We drank beer and ate candy corn. He said there are bullet holes in his living room. Only the east side of his mouth talked; two peas in a pod, …