Bob Hicok is an automotive die designer and computer system administrator in Ann Arbor Michigan. No competing titles. Hicok's first book, The Legend of Light, (U of WI Press, 0-299-1490-2, 400 HC sold, 1700 PB sold) won the 1995 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and was named one of ALA's notables in 1997. Hicok's poems have appeared in Chelsea, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Kenyon Review and many others. Poet outside do the academic world