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Bob Hicok is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Sex Love , Hold, and Red Rover, Red Rover (Copper Canyon Press, ). Hicok received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress, as well as eight Pushcart Prizes. He is a professor of creative writing at Virginia Tech. Bob Hicok teaches at Virginia Tech University and is the author of ten collections, including Animal Soul, This Clumsy Living, Elegy Owed, and Sex Love . He is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, respectively. This is a usual question asked by students today. They have to complete a Sex Love |Bob Hicok lot of academic tasks in practically all classes to earn their degrees at college or university (even at high school, there are these issues). Right? Writing Sex Love |Bob Hicok a research paper can be rather challenging and very time-consuming.
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