Brian Hendrickson Published in Mosaic

Brian Hendrickson published "Irreverently Unromantic: A Rhetorical Path to Sophistic Poetics in the Poetry of Bob Hicok." in the June 2014 issue of Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary studyof literature.

"Irreverently Unromantic" is a rhetorical analysis of Bob Hicok's earliest and most recent poems in which Hendrickson reveals how the poet modifies the terms of the central problem in contemporary poetry--Romantic irony--by employing an irreverent poetics he describes as sophistic to highlight its rhetorical tendencies while differentiating it from the inverted Platonism of Romantic irony.